单词 | nine |
释义 | nine (naɪn ) Word forms: nines 1. number A1 Nine is the number 9. We still sighted nine yachts. ...nine hundred pounds. 2. dressed up to the nines phrase If you say that someone is dressed up to the nines or dressed to the nines, you mean that they are wearing very smart or elegant clothes. [informal] 3. nine times out of ten phrase B2 If you say that something happens or is the case nine times out of ten or ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you mean that it happens on nearly every occasion or is almost always the case. When they want something, nine times out of ten they get it. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred when people say 'I know how you feel', they are lying. Idioms: on cloud nine very happy because something very good has happened to you I never expected to win, so I'm on cloud nine. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers have nine lives to keep managing to get out of difficult or dangerous situations without being hurt or harmed I think this is probably going to be the end, although he has shown he is a political cat with far more than nine lives. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers go the whole nine yards [US] to do something to the fullest extent possible She's been the whole nine yards with the disease, has come through it, and has now taken up sailing. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Translations: Chinese: 九 Japanese: 九 |
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