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broad in the beam
Idioms and Phrases
Having broad hips or large buttocks. For example, I've grown too broad in the beam for these slacks . This expression originated in the 17th century and described the wideness of a ship. It began to be used for the human body only in the 1920s.Example Sentences
Meant stylistically to recall the 1953 Silver Dawn drophead 鈥 the first Rolls-Royce vehicle built as Britain began to recover from World War II 鈥 the new Dawn is long and broad in the beam, with graceful lines that suggest sinuous, sophisticated strength.
My third was: 鈥淭he big belted look is not recommended for those broad in the beam.鈥
The Perhaps was a full-rigged ship, with auxiliary steam, broad in the beam, with strong, rounded bows.
She was broad in the beam for a yacht, but consequently safe and comfortable.
She smiled and tossed her head even when he came back and told us with great heartiness that he had bought a vessel鈥攁 north-country collier of near four hundred tons, stout in her timbers and broad in the beam, built for strength rather than speed鈥攋ust such a vessel as Captain Cook had sailed in.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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