单词 | as they speak |
释义 | > as lemmasas they (etc.) speak b. as they (etc.) speak, = as the phrase is. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > phrases indicating mode of expression [phrase] by language?c1450 so to speak1553 as they (etc.) speak1595 in a manner of speaking1890 1595 in J. H. Pollen Acts Eng. Mart. (1892) vi. 101 Forthwith was found by the twelve billa vera, as they speak. 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 80 By letting down shafts from the day (as Miners speak). 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 35 Many of them became petrified, as they speak. 1846 J. Keble Serm. (1848) xiii. 335 The same saying fell accidentally (as men speak) on the eye of another rich young man. < as lemmas |
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