| 单词 | don't ask me |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdon't ask me P9. colloquial. don't ask me: used to indicate that one does not know the answer to a question and that one is surprised, irritated, etc., to be questioned. ΚΠ 1785 T. Holcroft tr. P. A. C. de Beaumarchais Follies of Day ii. 38 Page. The doors are all fast, how can I fly? Susan. Don't ask me! Fly! 1844 C. J. Lever Tom Burke I. xix. 130 Don't ask me. If your own heart doesn't teach ye, how can I? 1895 G. Moore Celibates 138 ‘When will you marry me?’ ‘Don't ask me. I cannot say when.’ 1952 D. Thomas Let. 10 Sept. (1987) 838 The first & last lines of the poem rhyme; the second and the last but one; & so on & so on. Why I acrosticked myself like this, don't ask me. 1991 D. R. Koontz Cold Fire iii. i. 371 ‘Why are we here?’.. ‘Don't ask me. You're the one who wanted to come.’ 2003 C. Birch Turn again Home x. 128 ‘Oh, don't ask me,’ she'd say, ‘I haven't the foggiest what you're on about.’ < as lemmas |
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