| 单词 | all right on the night |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(it will be) all right on the night b. the night: the first occasion on which a play or other entertainment is publicly performed. Frequently in phrases expressing optimism about a forthcoming performance when problems are encountered during rehearsal, as (it will be) all right on the night. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > optimism > expression of optimism [phrase] never feara1593 silver lininga1616 (it will be) all right on the night1908 1908 E. Terry Story of my Life xiv. 349 Poor Mr. Rothenstein was much worried over his lithograph, yet ‘it was all right on the night’, as actors say. 1911 O. Onions Widdershins 26 I've not got on very well with it. But it will be all right on the night, as you used to say. 1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art xiv. 322 In the rehearsal of any given passage..the actors may move and speak exactly as they will ‘on the night’. 1949 Economist 23 July 172 The hope that the Atlantic Pact would ‘turn out all right on the night’. 1973 E. Lemarchand Let or Hindrance xiii. 165 Penny may fly off the handle, but she's always all right on the night. 1990 Amateur Stage Sept. 2/2 (advt.) Eliminate the problem of promising rehearsals turning into shows that are not ‘all right on the night’. < as lemmas |
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