| 单词 | as the dickens |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) —— as the dickens a. (as) —— as the dickens: —— to a great degree; extremely or excessively ——.Cf. (as) —— as the devil at devil n. Phrases 2b. ΚΠ 1822 Weekly Visitor & Ladies' Museum 21 Dec. 118/2 Away Jake and I went down the Bowery like old Nick; cold as the dickens; had no great coat, had left it in the country. 1955 Time 31 Oct. 84 Whenever you have 2,000 workers, you always have misunderstandings—most of them as petty as the dickens. 1977 Newsday 19 Mar. 40/2 ‘It must have been 110 degrees in that ring,’ Gil Clancy said. ‘Hot as the dickens,’ Foreman said. 2014 @erin_lindsay92 22 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I am obsessed with Prince George. That baby is as cute as the dickens. < as lemmas |
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