| 单词 | hundred-per-centism |
| 释义 | > as lemmashundred-per-centism c. a (also one) hundred per cent: used adjectivally or adverbially with the meaning ‘entire(ly), complete(ly)’. Hence hundred-per-center, hundred-per-centism. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter > utterly all outc1300 out and outc1300 at all devicec1385 to devicec1385 right out?1543 up to the chin1546 up to the eyes1607 upsy Friese1609 up to the (or one's) eyebrowsa1627 all hollow1762 (immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822 all ends up1850 fair and square1870 right spang1884 to the wide1895 a (also one) hundred per cent1911 1911 H. S. Harrison Queed vii. 90 You do more work in twenty-four hours than you're doing now, besides feelin' one hundred per cent. better all the time. 1918 T. Roosevelt in N.Y. Times 19 July 6/6 There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 per cent. Americanism... No man who is not 100 per cent. American is entitled to the support of any party. 1923 Westm. Gaz. 1 Jan. An administrator is 100 per cent. successful only when he gets every individual in the factory..working as enthusiastically as if he were working for himself on his own job. 1923 Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. Under a hundred per cent. disability. 1923 Smart Set Feb. 30 (title) Diary of a 100% American. 1926 W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts 135 Such detachment would not be possible to a ‘hundred per cent. American’. a1927 W. W. Woollcott (title of poem) I am a one hundred percent. American. 1928 Publishers' Weekly 26 May 2164/2 I have frequently encountered excellent accounting systems which were 100 per cent. useless. 1928 Observer 4 Mar. 13/2 Perhaps New York is not the place for the Hundred-per-centers. I certainly never met any. 1928 Observer 8 Apr. 8/2 He is really another victim of hundred-per-centism. 1931 G. B. Shaw Platform & Pulpit (1962) 232 The first thing that would occur to a real hundred per cent. American in Russia is that..it must be a splendid country to make money in. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Jan. 76/3 The inevitable ‘honest-to-God’ hundred-per-cent. American young man..besieges and wins Valerie's heart. 1931 G. D. H. Cole in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. 666 I see no sign of the actual approach of this hundred per cent. American paradise. 1946 Amer. Speech 21 34/1 Hundred per center,..one who observes all customs and traditions without demur. 1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 169 The bomber crews had to make 100 per cent. certain of putting their H.E. loads right on the objective. 1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby xxiv. 233 You're one hundred per cent sure they'll never make any sort of bang, then? < as lemmas |
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