| 单词 | did anybody ever? | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasdid anybody ever?  d.   colloquial.  did you ever?: used elliptically for ‘did you ever see or hear the like?’; would you believe it? Similarly  did anybody ever?,  if ever!,  was there ever?,  who'd ever? Cf. well, I never! at never adv. and int. Phrases 3. Now rare. ΚΠ 1818    Ld. Byron Beppo lxxxviii. 45  				Did I ever? No, I never Saw a man grown so yellow! 1825    J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 150  				‘My stars!—well, if ever!’—wiping her fat hands very carefully. 1828    T. Creevey Let. 6 Dec. in  J. Gore Creevey's Life & Times 		(1934)	 xiii. 294  				Lady Louisa..believed Papa would not have come..if I had not been coming. Was there ever? 1840    Spirit of Times 21 Nov. 447/3  				What a fib! did you ever? well, I never did hear the beat of that. 1844    G. E. Jewsbury Let. 24 June 		(1892)	 136  				He..found that the surgery-boy had..given calomel instead of ipecacuanha! Did you ever? 1854    J. E. Cooke Virginia Comedians I. xiv. 77  				‘Did anybody ever!’ said Miss Alethea. 1861    C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. xvii. 294  				So then, if they take us to task we can say, alack we knew nought; we thought no ill; now, who'd ever? and so forth. 1892    Peel City Guardian 23 Jan. 3/3  				‘And where is she now?’ ‘In a studio.’..‘Did you ever!’ said Mrs. Fanshaw. 1909    J. Masefield Trag. Nan  iii, in  Trag. Nan & Other Plays 61  				Fifty pou-und. Fifty pou-und. Did you ever. 1939    C. A. Porter Well, did you evah? in  Noel & Cole 		(1992)	 183  				Have you heard it's in the stars Next July we collide with Mars?..Well, did you evah! What a swell party this is. < as lemmas  | 
	
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