| 单词 | i wish you may get it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasI wish you may get it (b) colloquial (ironic). I wish you may get it, also don't you wish you may get it?, and variants: implying the speaker's doubt of, or lack of desire for, another's success. ΚΠ 1824 Morning Chron. 13 Oct. When informed that it [sc. a gold pin] was six shillings and sixpence, he said ‘I wish you may get it,’ and ran out of the shop with one of them. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 42 An ‘I wish you may get it’ sort of expression in his eye. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxvi. 274 ‘But the plaintiff must get it,’ resumed Mrs. Cluppins... ‘Vell,’ said Sam... ‘All I can say is, that I vish you may get it.’ 1842 R. H. Barham Lay St. Aloys in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 245 Ah, ha! my good friend!—don't you wish you may get it? 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiii. 111 ‘There's one of the greatest men in the kingdom wants some.’ ‘Does he?’ growled the senior. ‘Wish he may get it.’ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 54/2 I've heard people say when I've cried ‘all a-growing’ on a fine-ish day, ‘Aye, now summer's a-coming.’ I wish you may get it, says I to myself; for I've studied the seasons. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ix. 216 Don't you wish you may get it? 1929 Barron's 17 June 16/2 With pardonable cynicism the impartial reader will say, ‘Don't they wish they may get it.’ 1944 Yale Univ. Libr. Gaz. 19 17/2 The last words he uttered were spoken to an anxious creditor; to whom he said, ‘Don't you wish you may get it.’ 2003 BBC Summary of World Broadcasts (Nexis) 13 Oct. If this does not work, then as Moldovans say, I wish you may get it. < as lemmas |
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