carry-onとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Deverbal from carry on.

形容詞

carry-on (not comparable)

1. Taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.

   Synonyms: (attributively before “luggage”/“baggage”/“bag”) hand, personal, cabin, flight

   Antonym: checked

   It's a compact suitcase, but it makes a good carry-on bag.

名詞

carry-on (countable and uncountable, plural carry-ons)

1. That luggage or baggage which is taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.

   Synonyms: hand luggage, handcarry

   Do you think they'll accept my ski poles as carry-on?

   1. A bag, suitcase, etc., used to carry this luggage or baggage.
      • 2022, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4900 TeenSA:

        "THAT'S NOT MY CARRY-ON, THOSE WOULD NEVER GET THROUGH SECURITY. ALSO YOU'RE GROUNDED"

2. (countable, British, New Zealand) A palaver; a disorderly or absurd situation.

   Synonyms: riddle me ree, rigmarole; see also Thesaurus:rigmarole

   • 1978 December 9, Nancy Walker, “Sexism and Racism at GCN?”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 10:

     Sometimes all this carry-on about race, religion and sex seems so petty and silly that I cannot take it seriously.

   • 2002, Lynne Graham, The Italian's Wife:

     "I love salad",she dared when it came to the next course, and then inwardly cringed when it seemed that that was actually a special order and there was such a carry-on about what kind of salad she wanted.

   • 2011 November 27, Kitty Empire, The Observer:

     The stopping, restarting, swearing and routine self-deprecation ("I'm in trouble with the vicar – eternal trouble," quips Martin) is the kind of carry-on that has fans purring with pleasure.

参考

• rollaboard
• trolley suitcase

語源 1

Equivalent to carry onward.

動詞

carry on (third-person singular simple present carries on, present participle carrying on, simple past and past participle carried on)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To continue or proceed as before.

   I’ll be gone for a few days, but I hope you will carry on in my absence.

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To continue, maintain or pursue (an activity or enterprise).

   to carry on commerce in a market

   Carry on the good work.

   It is difficult to carry on a conversation with so many distractions.

3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To persist, persevere.

   Near-synonyms: keep on, hang in, hang on, keep on keeping on

   keep calm and carry on

   • 1897, Charles Clive Bigham Mersey, A ride through western Asia, London, New York: Macmillan, →OCLC, page 18:

     He carried on a long conversation with the dragoman in Turkish, the upshot of which was that he would give me a "buyuruldu" or special order to go to Sivas, and would provide an escort if the British Consul would send a written guarantee that I was a bona fide traveller.

   • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 755:

     The Schynige Platte Railway carries on its traffic with no more than four electric locomotives (with one steam locomotive in reserve).

   • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52:

     In his favour, Beeching declared that he supported carrying on with the existing modernisation projects, but that the rest of the business needed root and branch reform.

4. (idiomatic, intransitive) To talk continuously or prolongedly (about something), often in an excessively excited way.

   Near-synonym: go on

   He’s always carrying on about his stupid aquarium.

5. (idiomatic, intransitive) To act or behave; especially, to misbehave so as to attract attention; to make a fuss; to behave ostentatiously.

   Synonym: see misbehave § Synonyms

   I really wish you wouldn't carry on like that in public!

   I could hear some protestors hollering, but I wasn't close enough to make out what was happening. What were they carrying on about?

6. (idiomatic, intransitive) To have an illicit sexual or flirtatious relationship.

   I thought he was my friend, but all the time he was carrying on with my wife!

派生語

• carry on like a pork chop
• carrying-on

参考

• (talk prolongedly): on about, on and on

語源 2

Equivalent to carry onto.

動詞

carry on (third-person singular simple present carries on, present participle carrying on, simple past and past participle carried on)

1. (idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it.

   You may only carry on items that are smaller than a certain size.

   You may carry them on if they fit within the limits.

   Will you be checking any bags, or just carrying on?

派生語

名詞

carry on (plural carry ons)

1. alternative spelling of carry-on