单词 | all of a piece |
释义 | > as lemmasall of a piece b. all of a piece: all in one; all of the same kind or quality. ΚΠ 1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares iv. sig. I O happy starres. And now pardon Ladie; me thinks these [kisses] are all of a peece. 1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman ii. 23 Those Nations who make their Doublet and Shirt all of a peece. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. ii. 40 One of them was covered, and seemed all of a piece. 1914 G. B. Shaw Misalliance 71 It's all of a piece here. The men effeminate, the women unsexed. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. ii. 318 Goodness isn't all of a piece..any more than badness. 2000 J. Kent in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 197/2 The evidence that suggested that the world as it was might not have been created by divine agency all of a piece and not very long ago. < as lemmas |
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