单词 | and how! |
释义 | > as lemmasand how! d. and how!: excl. used to indicate that the effect of something is difficult to describe = and no mistake, very much so! originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely > remarkable or extraordinary > remarkably or extraordinarily more than ordinary1560 and a half1636 out of (also beyond) (all) recognition1824 and how!1865 like nobody's business1930 1865 B. Taylor Let. 16 June in M. H. Taylor Life & Lett. Bayard Taylor (1884) II. xviii. 434 I finished an article for the ‘Atlantic’ that day. As if I were not ‘a tool of the elements!’ ‘And how?’ as the Germans say (Americanicé—— ‘You'd better believe it!’). 1932 J. W. Drawbell Good Time! xvii. §3 ‘How's that for your orders from a typical American woman?’ ‘You mean it, Peggy?’ ‘And how!’ ‘Baby!’ 1932 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 752 I want to meet Yeats and Epstein and Eliot some day and how. 1933 E. E. Cummings eimi 83 I have fallen, fallen And How; tumbled into exactly 180 minuteless minutes of ‘materialist dialectic’. 1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway ii. 37 ‘Did Mr. Honey take it seriously?’ she asked. ‘And how!’ I said. 1963 V. Nabokov Gift iii. 175 One foot is buried in rich mud, the other is about to kick—and how!—the hideous, tar~black ball. 1965 Listener 25 Nov. 874/1 ‘Alas,’ wrote Harrington, ‘all earthly things do fail to mortals in enjoyment.’ And how. < as lemmas |
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