They drain into armchairs and into indifference and into cynicism, and they are just as much lost to the country in that way. We hear of people sleeping in baths, on billiard tables or in armchairs, because there is no other accommodation available for them. The nuclear submarine is not—as some defence commentators, from the depths of their armchairs, have assured us—just an improved submarine. Housewives will choose goods from their kitchens or from their lounge armchairs, and then pick up the goods from the supermarket. We are made miserable by watching on our television screens, from the comfort of our armchairs, the suffering of people confined to asylums. Our aim is as far as possible to enable elderly people to claim it from the comfort of their armchairs. They can sit in armchairs and write and criticise. There are 15 swivelling armchairs in the docks of the jury courts. There are 15 armchairs in the dock but only two places for counsel who represent the people in the dock. Do not let us become vultures of compassion, peering at poverty on the small screen from comfortable armchairs. I can only cite the law as told me by the gentleman concerned with the two armchairs. There were armchairs on which the legs became loose after a week or two. I understood that it was preferable to keep the elderly members of the country fit, well and healthy—rather than having them atrophy in their armchairs. Race relations cannot be decreed by doctrinaires from office chairs or armchairs in this country. I realise that armchairs will be dumped, and occasionally there will be some evidence. Các quan điểm của các ví dụ không thể hiện quan điểm của các biên tập viên Cambridge Dictionary hoặc của Cambridge University Press hay của các nhà cấp phép. : to bend one's legs and move one's knees toward one's chest She sat down in the chair and drew up her knees/legs. Dictionary Entries Near draw up one's knees/legsdraw up draw up one's knees/legs draw well Cite this Entry“Draw up one's knees/legs.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/draw%20up%20one%27s%20knees%2Flegs. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024. ShareSubscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! |
