| 单词 | i will believe it when i see it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasI will believe it when I see it a. colloquial. I will believe it when I see it and variants: used to express scepticism; ‘I will believe it only when I see it or have evidence or proof of it’. ΚΠ 1605 A. Wotton Answere Popish Pamphlet 134 You shall giue vs leaue to beleeue it, when wee see it done. 1614 R. Tailor Hogge hath lost Pearle i. sig. B4 Why then ile beleeue it when I see it. 1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) i. 89/2 That the Hepatic Artery..is inserted into the little Branches of the Hepatic Bilary Porus, I will believe it when I see it. 1866 W. H. Murray Diamond cut Diamond i. 12 How. I have..determined to resign the contest, and quit the field. Sey. I'll believe it when I see you cross the boundary. 1878 Jrnl. & Trans. Photogr. Soc. 9 Apr. 73 Dr. Monckhoven speaks of the variety of reds obtainable from iron... Well, as I have said, I shall believe it when I see it. 1903 Times 15 Oct. 8/6 Though I do occasionally hear that ‘disestablishment’ is ‘inevitable’..; I am only prepared to believe that when I see it. 1976 Texas Monthly Jan. 5/1 Cartwright was working on a gimmick to draw attention to his new profession: he's mentioned an eye patch and shaving his head, but we'll believe it when we see it. 2006 ‘C. Keene’ Getting Burned ix. 88 ‘This won't happen again, sir.’.. ‘Hah,’ said the chief. ‘I'll believe that when I see it.’ < as lemmas |
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