English Dictionary

flat out

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌflæt ˈaʊt/

形容詞

比較不可 オーストラリア英語

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flat, out. / Complete, total, downright. / Very busy. / (Australia) Lazy, sleeping.

日本語の意味

完全な、全体の、徹底した / 非常に忙しい / （オーストラリアのスラングで）怠けている、または寝ている

She left a flat out mattress on the porch for the movers to load.

彼女は引っ越し業者が積み込めるように、ポーチに平らで屋外に置かれたマットレスを残した。

意味（1）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flat, out.

So many of them took pictures, of themselves and of me, that we ran flat out of black-and-white film the second day out, and there wasn′t a Queen Mary necktie to be had in the shops after we left the port.

意味（2）

Complete, total, downright.

Avoid Flat-Out Opposites The slob vs. the neatnik. The artist vs. the precision-freak. The freethinker vs. the tightass. Liberal vs. conservative. Jock vs. nerd. David vs. Goliath. Good vs. evil. Beauty and the Beast. Jekyll and Hyde.

意味（3）

Very busy.

I know we are all flat out. That is the way it is. We are flat out, and it becomes a way of life.

意味（4）

(Australia) Lazy, sleeping.

flat out (like a lizard in the sun) - doing absolutely nothing