dog that caught the car

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who has unexpectedly attained an aspirational goal and is now unsure what to do with it. colloquial,especially,idiomatic
    — So I went out, and I was telling the President about what a tough time being Governor was. I felt like the dog that caught the car; I really wasn't equipped to be governor... When I got ready to leave, I realized that I had bored a guy who had to make the decision to drop the bomb, telling him what a tough job being the governor of Arkansas was.

词形变化

dogs that caught the car plural

词源

From the instinctual urge of dogs to chase cars, most of which are traveling far and fast enough that they are never within reach.
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