| 单词 | do you mean to say |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdo you mean to say (also to tell me) a. do you mean to say (also to tell me) and variants (with following clause): expressing the speaker's surprise or scepticism at a statement, suggestion, implication, etc. Also (usually less strongly) you don't mean to say (also to tell me) and variants. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > expressing disbelief [phrase] do you mean to say (also to tell me)1763 you don't mean to say (also to tell me)1763 tell that to the marines1806 in a horn1847 you are (or have got to be) joking1907 tie that bull outside or to another ashcan1921 you could have fooled me1926 you wouldn't read about it1950 pull the other one (it's got bells on)1966 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection] > in response to statement do you mean to say (also to tell me)1763 you don't mean to say (also to tell me)1763 1763 A. Murphy Citizen i. ii. 20 Did you mean to say as how I am a person of taste? 1785 T. Holcroft Choleric Fathers i. 14 D. Sal. Sir, I have too much respect to good manners to follow your example. D. Pimi. Do you mean to say, sir, I don't know good manners? 1834 Southern Literary Messenger 1 110 ‘A fraud, sir! do you mean to say I would commit a fraud, sir?’ cried Willis, in an angry tone. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xix. 181 Do you mean to tell me that your pretty niece was not brought here as a decoy..? 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxix. 288 Why, he don't mean to say he's going!.. Hoity toity! nonsense. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxix. 163 ‘You don't mean to say their old wearers are all dead, I hope?’ said Mr. Tappertit, falling a little distance from him, as he spoke. ‘Every one of 'em.’ 1899 R. Broughton Game & Candle 129 You do not mean to imply..that Mrs. Grundy is going to interpose between you and me? 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xx. 230 Anne Shirley, do you mean to tell me you believe all that wicked nonsense of your own imagination? 1944 H. Croome You've gone Astray xxi. 209 Do you mean to say that in this day and age..you're going to come the conventional? 1986 F. Peretti This Present Darkness ix. 87 Do you mean to say you've uncovered something new? < as lemmas |
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