whole ball of wax
一团糟,一团乱麻,一团和气,团团转
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Definitions
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- : Also called beeswax. a solid, yellowish, nonglycerine substance allied to fats and oils, secreted by bees, plastic when warm and melting at about 145°F, variously employed in making candles, models, casts, ointments, etc., and used by bees in constructing their honeycomb.
- : any of various similar substances, as spermaceti or the secretions of certain insects and plants.Compare vegetable wax, wax insect.
- : any of a group of substances composed of hydrocarbons, alcohols, fatty acids, and esters that are solid at ordinary temperatures.
- : earwax; cerumen.
- : a resinous substance used by shoemakers for rubbing thread.
- : sealing wax.
- : a person or object suggesting wax, as in manageability or malleability: I am helpless wax in your hands.
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- : to rub, smear, stiffen, polish, etc., with wax: to wax the floor.
Phrases
- wax and wane
- whole ball of wax
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Online multiplayer gamesThe popularity of various multiplayer games waxes and wanes.
Since the portions are wrapped in wax paper, they can be easily separated.
The faster the economy is waxing, the more profitable new investments become, and the more companies compete for the capital needed to fund those investments.
Repeat once or twice, then dry completely overnight before waxing again.
Flushing out every bit of it means there’s nothing to attract dirt, and it also makes room for the wax to penetrate and bond to the chain.
Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.
Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.
Inside the wax floored examining room, I sat up on the powder blue table with my shirt off.
I promised never again to wax lyrical about the fries in gravy.
Full disclosure: I briefly worked for Torres at his current magazine, Wax Poetics.
Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.
At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.
Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.
Tories will wax eloquent on "the pink miasma of revolutionary Radicalism."
Frulein Timm belongs to the single sisterhood, but is one of the fresh and placid kind, and as neat as wax.