sally

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sal·ly1 /ˈsæli/ noun (plural sallies) [countableC] formal

1. PMa sudden quick attack and return to a position of defence 突击，出击

2. SAYan intelligent remark that is intended to amuse people 俏皮话，戏谑话

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sally• Oliver swept off his battered top hat in ironic acknowledgement of her sally.• No sallies once they get there.• Monk treats Russell's sallies with humourless seriousness, trying to get us to see them as proof of intellectual irresponsibility.

sally2 verb (sallied, sallying, sallies)

1 sally forth phrasal verbphr v literary LEAVE A PLACEto go out in order to do something, especially something that you expect to be difficult or dangerous – often used humorously 出发，出去〔做困难或危险的事，常为幽默用法〕

Each morning they sallied forth in search of jobs.

他们每天早上外出找工作。

Examples from the Corpus

sally forth• Their mountainous homeland with its fortress valleys was a near impregnable base from which to sally forth.• But Tommy was so good natured about everything and he would sally forth and start asking people where his strays might be.• We need, therefore, to sally forth once more into the mathematical jungle of vector spaces.• Thursday morning: himself, myself and large black labrador sally forth to G-o-S.

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sally• But Tommy was so good natured about everything and he would sally forth and start asking people where his strays might be.• We need, therefore, to sally forth once more into the mathematical jungle of vector spaces.• Their mountainous homeland with its fortress valleys was a near impregnable base from which to sally forth.• From their orbital hive-turned-fortress, they would sally out against whoever was left and eat them alive.• At the very least they must be contained and never allowed to sally out.

Origin sally1

(1500-1600) Old French saillie, from saillir “to run forward”, from Latin salire “to jump”

sal·ly1 nounsally2 verb

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