tip off

英 [ˈtɪp ɒf]

美 [ˈtɪp ɔːf]

给…通风报信; 暗中告知

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 给…通风报信;暗中告知
  If someonetipsyouoff, they give you information about something that has happened or is going to happen.
  1. Greg tipped police off on his car phone about a suspect drunk driver...
     格雷格用他的汽车电话向警方报告了一个有酒后驾驶嫌疑的司机。
  2. He was arrested two days later after a friend tipped off the FBI.
     他的一个朋友给美国联邦调查局报了信两天以后他就被捕了。

英英释义

verb

• give insider information or advise to
  1. He tipped off the police about the terrorist plot
  Synonym:tip

双语例句

• And once you're on the boss's good side, it won't be long before he or she will tip off higher management about your talent and good attitude.
  一但你的上司对你有好的认同感，不久后他（她）将会对你的才能与好的态度提供更高的管理职位。
• Effort from tip off to whatever time in the morning a game might be decided.
  任何一个早晨的努力是可以在一场比赛可以体现的。
• An implement for cutting the tip off of a cigar.
  切割香烟末端的工具。
• Its tip flicked twice around the tumbleweed, jerked it off the ground and back to the feed opening in the imitation tree stump within which the rest of the slurp was concealed.
  舌尖绕着风滚草圈了两圈，然后猛得将其拉起来，往模仿树残桩里的进食口拖去，啜食者正是隐藏了里面。
• And lastly, I copied the tip of the finger off our original source and pasted it over the zipper's pull tab to situate the tab underneath.
  最后，我再把手指尖的部分复制下来覆盖出拉链的拉扣，这样手指就搭在了拉扣上。
• A tuning tip for this management infrastructure is to turn off automatic synchronization of the node configurations.
  这个管理基础设施的一个调优技巧是关闭节点配置的自动同步功能。
• Did you tip her off about this case?
  你向她透露过这个案子吗？
• The police arrested him after an anonymous tip off.
  在接到匿名举报后，警方逮捕了他。
• That should have been the tip off for you, my friend.
  那本该是对你的告诫，我的朋友。
• You can also use a pull-and-drop presentation by raising your rod tip so the sinker also comes up off the bottom.
  你也可以用“拖-停”的手法，这样在你抬高竿尖的时候，铅坠也轻微离底。