词汇 | outstay your welcome |
释义 | outstay your welcome phrase (在某处)呆得太久而变得不受欢迎 to continue to stay in a place although other people want you to leave They were busy so I left - I didn't want to outstay my welcome. 他们很忙,所以我就走了——我不想因为呆得太久而惹人烦。 It's always hard to know at these sorts of parties when you've outstayed your welcome. I noticed James yawning and sensed that we'd outstayed our welcome. If party guests outstay their welcome, what's the most diplomatic way of getting them to leave? Occupying forces who were initially invited to help put down the uprising had built bases and outstayed their welcome, and the regional government was eager to see them all gone. After a week of loafing on the couch, he's definitely outstayed his welcome. Compare: overstay See also: outstay |
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