| 释义 |
oh yeah, int. colloq. (orig. U.S.).|əʊ ˈjɛə|
Also O yeah.
[f. oh int. + yeah.]
An exclamation or interrogative suggesting incredulity, disbelief, or scepticism; ‘really?’, ‘is that so?’. Also as quasi-adj.
1930Forum Dec. 376/2 Only recently, that cultural masterpiece O yeah! sounded its death rattle. 1931Loeb & Schenker Please Stand By xii. 138 ‘Oh, are you William Wishtell,’ the girl from the Globe asked... ‘I've been dying to meet you.’ ‘Oh, yeah? Well, here I am in the flesh.’ 1933F. Scott Fitzgerald Let. 19 Oct. (1964) 237 No exclamatory ‘At last, the long awaited, etc.’ This merely creates the ‘Oh yeah’ mood in people. 1933P. Godfrey Back-Stage xv. 194 They smiled indulgently, and greeted me with such remarks as ‘I should worry’ and ‘Oh, yeah!’ 1934Daily Mirror 28 June 13/1 (heading) ‘Oh Yeah!’.. Observe that when you say, ‘Oh, yes,’ it doesn't mean at all the same thing as ‘Oh, yeah,’ when..you say that. ‘Oh, yeah’ means, really, ‘Oh, no’; or ‘you think you know about that do you, you guy, but I don't think you do, I don't.’ 1936Variety 24 June 47/3 Oh, Yeah? Agency men claim they can guess within $250 of any quoted price on a picture name. 1937H. G. Wells Star Begotten vii. 120 Confronted with an idea the American says ‘Oh yeah!’ or ‘Sez you’. 1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 256 A representative group of Americanisms which have wide currency in Australia:..oh yeah. 1966D. Francis Flying Finish vi. 74 ‘You look out, pal, you mustn't go around admitting that sort of thing...’ ‘Oh yeah?’ I said, laughing. |