| 单词 | how is that for high? |
| 释义 | > as lemmashow is that for high? P9. Originally U.S. colloquial. how is that for high?: an exclamation inviting admiration. Now somewhat rare. [Perhaps with allusion to the high in all fours or similar games (see sense B. 6), but popularized in a song (see quot. 18691).] ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > expressions of commendation [interjection] > inviting commendation how is that for high?1869 sock it to me (them, etc.)!1963 1869 Billy Emerson's Oh! How is that for High? (sheet music) 4 A charming girl this afternoon, I saw come tripping by, And as I looked she winked at me, Oh! how is that for High? 1869 Plymouth (Indiana) Weekly Democrat 11 Feb. Three concerts in Chicago brought her $8,000. How's that for high? 1870 Harvard Advocate 25 Nov. 54/1 ‘Sic semper stultibus’, is what a worthy member of '73 stuck on to a Freshman's door, after putting himself to the trouble..of tearing down said Fresh's card. How's that for high? 1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin xviii. 315 ‘How's that for high, boys?’ concluded the narrator, when he had told his tale. ‘That's on top,’ declared Black Jack; ‘that takes the cake.’ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vii. [Aeolus] 119 What about that, Simon?..How's that for high? 2004 T. Fleming Passionate Girl (2009) 417 At the end of each week, I send Dick Connolly a list of the men. Sometimes with a little description of what we did. How's that for high? < as lemmas |
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