English Dictionary

more life in a tramp's vest

名詞

イギリス英語 俗語 不可算名詞

(UK, slang) Used in comparisons to indicate that someone or something is devoid of life or animation.

日本語の意味

（口語表現）比較において、対象が活気や生命感に欠け、生命力が感じられない状態であることを示す

There was more life in a tramp's vest than in the lecture hall during the professor's talk.

教授の講義中、講堂には浮浪者のベストにさえもっと生気があった。

意味（1）

(UK, slang) Used in comparisons to indicate that someone or something is devoid of life or animation.

We had been used to the patter and banter of the Gorbals and, after a particularly dull conversation with one of our new neighbours, my mother told me that she'd 'seen mair life in a tramp's vest'.