On the prowl là gì

Nghĩa là gì: prowl prowl /prowl/

• danh từ
  • sự đi lảng vảng, sự đi rình mò [kiêm mồi, ăn trộm...]; sự đi vơ vẩn
    • to take a prowl about the streets: đi vơ vẩn quanh phố

• nội động từ
  • lảng vảng kiếm mồi; đi rình mò kiếm mồi
  • [nghĩa bóng] lảng vảng, đi vơ vẩn

• ngoại động từ
  • lảng vảng quanh, đi vơ vẩn quanh [phố...]

Nghĩa là gì: prowl prowl /prowl/

• danh từ
  • sự đi lảng vảng, sự đi rình mò [kiêm mồi, ăn trộm...]; sự đi vơ vẩn
    • to take a prowl about the streets: đi vơ vẩn quanh phố

• nội động từ
  • lảng vảng kiếm mồi; đi rình mò kiếm mồi
  • [nghĩa bóng] lảng vảng, đi vơ vẩn

• ngoại động từ
  • lảng vảng quanh, đi vơ vẩn quanh [phố...]

on the prowl Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

on the prowl

on the prowl
Actively looking for something, as in Their underpaid computer programmers are always on the prowl for better jobs. This idiom transfers an animal's search for prey to human pursuits that are usually less bloodthirsty. [c. 1800]

on the prowl

1. slang Looking for a sexual partner. This bar is a favorite destination of young men and women out on the prowl.2. slang Actively looking for someone or something. Usually followed by "for." I've been on the prowl for a new television that I can get for a good price.Learn more: on, prowl

on the prowl

looking for someone for sexual purposes. [Alludes to a prowling cat.] Tom looks like he is on the prowl again tonight. That whole gang of boys is on the prowl. Watch out.Learn more: on, prowl

on the prowl

Actively looking for something, as in Their underpaid computer programmers are always on the prowl for better jobs. This idiom transfers an animal's search for prey to human pursuits that are usually less bloodthirsty. [c. 1800] Learn more: on, prowl

on the prowl

mod. looking for someone for sexual purposes, in the manner of a prowling cat. Tom looks like he is on the prowl again tonight. Learn more: on, prowl

on the prowl

Actively looking for something: salespeople on the prowl for better jobs.Learn more: on, prowl

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Dictionary

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"Go on the prowl" = sự đi lảng vảng, sự đi rình, sự đi vớ vẩn; tìm bạn tình.

Ví dụ

Xiaopi - a Russian Blue - was let out of his cage by staff who then went home in Guangzhou, China - leaving him free to go on the prowl.

DURING Donald Trump’s marriage to Ivana, there were rumours [tin đồn] and stories that he liked to go “on the prowl at nighttime”, a documentary claims.

The temptation [sự cám dỗ, quyến rũ] grows stronger when the living traditions conservatives defend are collapsing or have collapsed, and when the left seeks to destroy inheritance [gia tài] altogether. Absent the living inheritance of tradition, some go on the prowl for another, easier version of it.

Bin Kuan

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