johnny-come-lately
迟来的约翰尼,姗姗来迟的约翰尼,迟到的约翰尼,姗姗来迟
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plural John·ny-come-late·lies, John·nies-come-late·ly.
- : a late arrival or participant; newcomer: the Johnny-come-latelies producing space-war films after the trend had ended.
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Meanwhile, in Florida, Bush was flooded with questions about whether gay marriage could possibly come to the Sunshine State.
These generally come from the outside, from cultural pressures and messages.
But there is an underlying feeling that the worst is yet to come.
My agent at the time sent that tape to SNL and then they asked me to come in for an audition.
And suddenly, we were able to come up with all these scenes for it.
In their shelter, Brion and Ulv crouched low and wondered why the attack didn't come.
Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.
He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
This wasn't at all what he meant to say, and it sounded very ridiculous; but somehow the words wouldn't come straight.