nutcracker
胡桃夹子,胡桃钳,胡桃鉗,坚果饼干
Definitions
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- : an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
- : any of several corvine birds of the genus Nucifraga that feed on nuts, as the common nutcracker, N. caryocatactes, of Europe and Clark's nutcracker, N. columbiana, of the western U.S.
Examples
Or Spike Jones cracks me up with his subversion of The Nutcracker.
She set her mind on getting a part in The Nutcracker and devoted all waking hours to preparing for the audition.
Of course, the headline, “Zemeckis to Uglimate The Nutcracker,” might have set a certain unappreciative tone.
There were enormous nutcracker men, 8- to 10-feet-tall, out by the gate in front of the house.
Yet Serenade for Strings in C Major sounded nothing like the Nutcracker or Swan Lake.
He was a young man with a clear, hairless face, a long thin nose, and rather nutcracker jaws.
She had a stick and a nutcracker face and a pair of large iron bowed spectacles.
Old Squirrel Nutcracker sat outside his doorstep while Mrs. Nutcracker hung out the rugs and beat the sofa cushions.
They hadn't heard Featherhead, the naughty son of Squirrel Nutcracker, take down the sign.
He was not strong enough to throw it far and it only fell at her feet, but Mary's face looked as pinched as a nutcracker.