| 单词 | a fine kettle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa fine kettle b. Usually with adjective ironically, as pretty kettle, fine kettle, nice kettle, rare kettle (†also simply a fine kettle): A mess, muddle, disagreeable or awkward state of things. Also, a different or another kettle of fish: a different state of affairs, a different matter altogether. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things hard casec1325 box1546 pass1560 little-ease1589 a fine kettle1741 mess1812 how-do-you-do1835 hot mess1867 bed of nails1872 shitter1958 strife1963 the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [phrase] > a different matter or state of affairs a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530 a different (also another) story1688 something else1844 another pair of shoes1861 a different or another kettle of fish1937 a different cup of tea1940 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiii. 308 He has made a fine Kettle on't,—han't he! 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xi. 74 ‘Here's a pretty Kettle of Fish,’ cries Mrs. Tow-wouse. View more context for this quotation 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. viii. 225 Fine Doings at my House! A rare Kettle of Fish I have discovered at last. View more context for this quotation 1800 Duke of Wellington Let. to Close 2 Oct. in Dispatches (1837) I. 245 If so, we shall have a fine kettle of fish at Seringapatam. 1820 Countess Granville Let. 7 Oct. (1894) I. 184 Ministers are in a nice kettle of fish, to be sure. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. iv. 21 Your training schools, and your whole kettle-of-fish of schools. 1937 Discovery Nov. 353/1 H. S. Thompson's ‘Garnet in Flight’ is another kettle of fish. 1938 R. Warner Professor vi. 141 Professor..you're very good at thinking out schemes—brainwork, I mean..if you understand what I mean; but that's only half the battle you know, in fact a different kettle of fish altogether. 1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 172 Until now the word ‘Colonel’ for Basil had connoted an elderly rock-gardener on Barbara's G.P.O. list. This formidable man of his own age was another kettle of fish. 1962 J. L. Austin's Sense & Sensibilia ii. 14 Looking..at a distant village on a very clear day across a valley, is a very different kettle of fish from seeing a ghost. < as lemmas |
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