slap on wrist
打耳光,打嘴巴,打手掌,打手势
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Definitions
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- : a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
- : a sound made by or as if by such a blow or smack: the slap of the waves against the dock.
- : a sharply worded or sarcastic rebuke or comment.
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slapped, slap·ping.
- : to strike sharply, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
- : to bring with a sharp blow against something.
- : to dash or cast forcibly: He slapped the package against the wall.
- : to put or place promptly and sometimes haphazardly: The officer slapped a ticket on the car. He slapped mustard on the sandwich.
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After reading the news on her phone, Allen was afraid to speak, smarting from what felt as visceral as a slap to the face.
The change can be as simple as slapping a second mask over the one you already wear, or better yet, donning a fabric mask on top of a surgical mask.
The ProGrip for MagSafe attaches to your phone magnetically, so when you want to slap it on a MagSafe charger, you simply pop off the PopSocket completely.
Of course, those models have much more complex audio components inside and can cost thousands of dollars, so it’s probably best not to slap them on for a run around the neighborhood.
Now that users have been formally invited to slap Microsoft Flight Simulator onto their faces, I must strongly urge users not to do so—or at least heavily temper their expectations.
Up and down the plane I heard the slap of blinders yanked down over the windows while the rest of us eagerly took in the view.
“Now get on your knees and crawl,” he demanded with the slap of a leather horse crop against the palm of his hand.
While that might just seem like a slap on the wrist compared to the cost of insurance, the penalty increases every year.
Queen Raina of Jordan also spoke, calling the refugee crisis in Syria “a slap in the face of humanity.”
Sometimes a great movie line has the impact of a slap in the face.
"Slap your saddles on them fresh hosses," he grated harshly from the back of a deep-chested, lean-flanked gray.
Slap through the town, whispered Sikes; therell be nobody in the way to-night to see us.
Black Hood let the clutch slap in and the roadster bounded back onto the tarvia drive.