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单词 high time
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high time
b. high time: fully at or (now usually) nearly past the time when something should happen or be done. Frequently with that or to do something.
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c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xix. l. 139 Til plenitudo temporis hih tyme a-prochede.
a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 1990 (MED) Go home to þi mete, It is hy tyme.
1518 H. Watson tr. Hystorye Olyuer of Castylle xxx. sig. G. iijv It was hyghe tyme to goo in to the courte.
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. vii. 37 It was..high time to make a contrarie lawe.
1611 Bible (King James) Rom. xiii. 11 Now it is high time to awake out of sleepe. View more context for this quotation
1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 42. 273 It is high Time for every Englishman to exert himself in Behalf of his Country.
1813 ‘H. Bull-Us’ Diverting Hist. John Bull & Brother Jonathan (ed. 2) xii. 62 He began to think it was high time to toe the mark.
1883 R. Churchill Speech Edinb. 20 Dec. in Speeches 1880–1888 (1889) I. 90 It is time, and high time, to pull up. Concede nothing more to Mr. Parnell.
1910 Outlook 25 June 365/2 In so far as that policy finds expression in the common and statutory law of to-day, it is high time that the law was changed in the interest of the people.
1942 Life 11 May 24/3 It was high time for the people of the United States to..quit agonizing about their future interest in baseball.
2007 News Rev. Messenger (Adelaide) (Nexis) 31 Oct. 28 It is high time licensing hours were trimmed back to no later than 10pm each night.
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high (old) time
b. Emotionally uplifted, in a good mood; elated, lively, uproarious; chiefly in high spirits, high (old) time.Chiefly as a positive attribute. For the sense ‘animated through anger’, see sense A. 11.Later use with on (see quot. 1977) may represent extended use of either sense A. 19a or A. 19c.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [adjective]
blitheOE
merryOE
golikc1175
lustya1225
playfulc1225
jollyc1305
merrya1350
jocund?c1380
galliardc1386
in (also on) a (merry, etc.) pinc1395
mirthfula1400
baudec1400
gayc1400
jovy1426
jocantc1440
crank1499
envoisiesa1500
as merry as a cricket1509
pleasant1530
frolic?1548
jolious1575
gleeful1586
buxom1590
gleesome1590
festival1592
laughter-loving1592
disposed1593
jucund1596
heartsomec1600
jovial1607
jovialist1610
laughsome1612
jocundary1618
gaysome1633
chirpinga1637
jovialissime1652
airy1654
festivous1654
hilarous1659
spleneticala1661
cocket1671
cranny1673
high1695
vogie1715
raffing?1719
festal1724
as merry (or lively) as a grig1728
hearty1755
tittuping1772
festive1774
fun-loving1776
mirthsome1787
Falstaffian1809
cranky1811
laughful1825
as lively as a cricket1832
hurrah1835
hilarious1838
Bacchic1865
laughterful1874
griggish1879
banzai1929
slap-you-on-the-back1932
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [adjective] > elated
jollyc1305
elated1615
elevateda1640
on (also upon) the high ropes (also rope)1672
high1695
elate1702
uppisha1704
vaudyc1720
in fine (also good, high) leg1808
exalté1831
in high snuff1840
bucked1907
thrilled1908
twitterpated1942
1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur ii. 43 Sweet Melodious Lays, Such as bright Spirits, in high Raptures sing, Around the Throne of their Eternal King.
1732 Coll. New State Songs 20 Poor Moll in high Glee From the Moment it came, Assum'd all the Airs of Imperial Dame.
1768 J. Byron Narr. Patagonia 46 The men were in high spirits from the prospect they had of getting off in the long-boat.
1782 F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) II. 149 Daddy Crisp..as usual, high in glee and kindness at the meeting.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 435 When his health was good and his spirits high, he was a scoffer.
1869 B. Harte Luck of Roaring Camp (1871) 226 These are high old times, ain't they?
1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxiii. 451 Santa Fe De San Francisco—so the old Spaniards named it—is a high old city.
1897 Windsor Mag. Jan. 269/1 I've had a high old time hunting up six dozen of '53.
1914 J. B. Ellis Woodneys v. 67 Last night I made everything all right with Nellie; so this morning I was feeling high.
1941 E. Bowen Look at all those Roses 255 Those two will be having a high old time, with the cat away.
1977 A. Cooke Six Men ii. 54 The small band..were high on the waggishness with which young college types cover up their self-consciousness.
1986 S. Penman Here be Dragons (1991) (U.K. ed.) ii. x. 715 Will was in recklessly high spirits; he insisted upon dancing with Joanna and Gwladys.
2012 E. Herzog Cardiac Care Unit Survival Guide 406/2 It is then when people often become intolerant of problems that did not bother them as much when they were in a high mood.
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