oil painting

英语

名词

oil painting (可数 和 不可数，复数 oil paintings)

1. 油画
2. (不可数) 油画作品
3. (英国，幽默，反叙，一般用否定形) 肉体具有吸引力的人
   • 1920 Henry St. John Cooper Sunny Ducrow, Putnam's, p.117:

     "Very lovely!" he said, staring her straight in the face.

     "You needn't try and be funny!" she said. "If you mean me, I'm no oil-painting, and I know it!"

   • 2007 "Virginia Trioli talks to George Brandis and Wayne Swan" Lateline ABC (Australia) 14 September 2007:

     Wayne Swan: All I can say is that she's a much more attractive person than the Prime Minister.

     George Brandis: You're not exactly an oil painting yourself, Wayne.