英和和英

動詞

cry off (third-person singular simple present cries off, present participle crying off, simple past and past participle cried off)

1. (ambitransitive) To cancel something previously arranged with someone.

   Sorry, but I have to cry off the game on Saturday, as my mother-in-law is coming to visit.

   • 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:

     "I—I am very sorry, Mr Carrados," stammered the curate, "but, after all, I am afraid that I must cry off. This week—"
     "If the distance takes up too much of your time, may I send a car?"

2. (intransitive) To leave.
3. (intransitive, slang) To confess; to snitch or inform on (someone).

同意語

• beg off