单词 | for anything |
释义 | > as lemmas(I would not) for anything b. In phrases expressing emphatic desire or (especially) reluctance (in sense A. 9 with admixture of sense A. 20 or sense A. 6), such as (I would not) for anything, etc.Recorded earliest in I would not for (all) the world: see world n. Phrases 8a. See also not for all the tea in China, for two pins. Π a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1877 For al þe world i nold our werk were vndone. 1592 (?a1425) Chester Plays (BL Add.) (1843) I. 11 Naye, Lorde, that will we not indeede, For nothinge treasspass unto thee. 1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility i. 25 He would not for any thing but be present at the Solemnity to behold the same. 1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer iv. ii. 39 I must not be seen here, lest my Lady shou'd be known to be within in a Masque; and that she would not for any thing. 1858 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Mar. 566/1 ‘I never boned a man in my life,’ said the boy, ‘and wouldn't for a dollar.’ 1873 H. E. McBride Comic Dialogues 142 I hain't your sister, and wouldn't be for a thousand dollars. 1904 Anaconda (Montana) Standard 24 July ii. 5/6 For two cents I'd beat the living life out of you. 1920 Collier's 30 Oct. 27/3 (advt.) Your ‘Subtle Principle of Success’ is working wonders for me. I would not part with it for a million dollars. 1932 R. Riskin Amer. Madness in Six Screenplays (1997) 168 For two nickels I'd knock his block off. 2011 D. Manderson in A. Bissett & C. MacDougall New Writing Scotl. 29 128 They'd stop the line. And you didn't want to be the one that did that. Not for anything. < as lemmas |
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