今日のトピックもReader's Digest 8月号、ナッシュビルの洪水記事にあった表現からです。
The deluge was breathtaking. DeRoche's mobile phone startled him when it rang. It was his softball buddy Chris Mills, who lived just across the creek.
"What are you doing?" Mills asked.
"Ha!" Deroche laughed. "What do you think we're doing? We're socked in. What's it like over there?"
"sock" が使われている表現は幾つもあり、これまでにも "sock away" (Ref. http://blog.alc.co.jp/blog/3302827/archive/2011/04/20 )と "sock it to" (Ref. http://blog.alc.co.jp/blog/3302827/archive/2010/11/03 ) を取り上げていますが、上の例はまた別の意味の様です。 意味を辞書で調べます。
・Dictionary.com: to close or ground because of adverse weather conditions: The airport was socked in.
・McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs: [for fog] to cause someone or something to remain in place. The heavy fog socked us in for six hours. The fog socked in the airport for an hour.
状況としては前回取り上げた "maroon" と似た意味になりますね。
The deluge was breathtaking. DeRoche's mobile phone startled him when it rang. It was his softball buddy Chris Mills, who lived just across the creek.
"What are you doing?" Mills asked.
"Ha!" Deroche laughed. "What do you think we're doing? We're socked in. What's it like over there?"
"sock" が使われている表現は幾つもあり、これまでにも "sock away" (Ref. http://blog.alc.co.jp/blog/3302827/archive/2011/04/20 )と "sock it to" (Ref. http://blog.alc.co.jp/blog/3302827/archive/2010/11/03 ) を取り上げていますが、上の例はまた別の意味の様です。 意味を辞書で調べます。
・Dictionary.com: to close or ground because of adverse weather conditions: The airport was socked in.
・McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs: [for fog] to cause someone or something to remain in place. The heavy fog socked us in for six hours. The fog socked in the airport for an hour.
状況としては前回取り上げた "maroon" と似た意味になりますね。
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