| 单词 | happy ever after |
| 释义 | > as lemmashappy ever after P6. happy ever after (also happy ever afterwards): = happily ever after at happily adv. Phrases. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > [adverb] > very happily happy ever after1813 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [adjective] > other specific attributes formal1592 tendency1838 unartistic1854 happy ever afterwards1858 ben trovato1883 middle-length1928 hard-boiled1929 stream of consciousness1931 plutographic1985 1734 Defoe's Relig. Courtship abridg'd i. iii. 123* They both press'd her to have him, and did not doubt but she wou'd in such a Choice be exceedingly well pleased and happy ever after.] 1813 Ld. Byron Let. 12 Oct. (1830) 143/2 I got one to make an apology, and the other to take it, and left them to live happy ever after. 1830 Museum Foreign Lit. & Sci. Sept. 204/2 This does not prevent their becoming mutually enamoured, and, at last, in the good old way they are married, and live very happy ever afterwards! 1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? viii. iii. 61 And then they would live happy ever afterward as in fairy tales. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 1 July 7/1 This, of course, is the so-called ‘happy-ever-after’ ending: in most cases the comedies of this type are..artificial. 1960 Observer 8 Feb. 14/7 There's a nasty rumour in some studios that the next fad will be ‘happy ever after’ endings. 1992 Herald (Glasgow) 16 Nov. 4/3 So it's happy ever after for the Perfect Wife and happy ever after for the Sexual Woman. < as lemmas |
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