| 释义 |
‖ à la bonne heure, phr.|a la bɔn œːr|
[Fr., lit. ‘at the right time’.]
‘Well done!’, ‘fine!’: freq. used ironically.
1750Chesterfield Let. 26 Apr. (1932) IV. 1528 If you can amuse yourself with that low play till supper, à la bonne heure. 1878H. James Europeans II. v. 211 ‘Surely, marriage was what you proposed.’ ‘Yes; but we didn't wish to force her.’ ‘A la bonne heure! That's very unsafe, you know.’ a1930D. H. Lawrence Etruscan Places (1932) 12 To my detractors I am a very effigy of vice. À la bonne heure! |