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

• They enter the house in a rough neighborhood without working with local police to get a search warrant, fearing officers could tip off the smugglers.
  他们进入这个位于崎岖地带的房子，没有与当地警察合作以取得搜索证，因为担心警方会事先警告这些走私者。
• Go to your father, taking him aside and tip him off that the man is a swindler.
  到你父亲那里，把他带到一边，悄悄告诉他那人是个骗子。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• An implement for cutting the tip off of a cigar.
  切割香烟末端的工具。
• After the first step of the tip part of the male mark is broken off, the second thorn-shaped step is buckled with the female mark, which avoids the possibility of mark falling.
  当公标尖端部的第一台阶处折断后，尚有棘刺形的第二台阶与母标相扣合，避免了掉标的可能。
• The way to tip off any rejection or obstruction of solicitation or demurral;
  对排斥、阻挠征询或异议的举报方式；
• That should have been the tip off for you, my friend.
  那本该是对你的告诫，我的朋友。
• Don't look suspicious! That will tip off the police!
  别显得那么紧张，那样会让警察注意你的。