| 单词 | as —— as he can stare |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas —— as he (also she, etc.) can stare P2. colloquial. as —— as he (also she, etc.) can stare: very ——, utterly ——. Earliest and chiefly in as like (a person) as he (also she, etc.) can stare: having a very close resemblance to (a person). Now archaic. ΚΠ 1690 Bloody Duke v. i. 50 They are terrible Fellows I'll warrant ye; the Pagan Plot was one of theirs, it was as like 'em as ever they could stare. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 299. ¶2 I have a little Chub-faced Boy as like me as he can stare. 1767 A. Murphy School for Guardians iv. 59 I remember all that, and it's as like miss Mary Ann as it can stare. 1801 Ann. Reg. 1799 (Otridge ed.) Poetry 470 ‘What doth Cobb own that any rain can hurt?’ Roar'd furious Jay, as broad as he could stare. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. xiii. 155 Oh! yes; and as like him as she can stare . View more context for this quotation 1847 E. Leslie Leonilla Lynmore 59 ‘Well—here's your sweet-heart’—pursued the fortune-teller—‘as dark-complected as he can stare.’ 1886 London Soc. Feb. 158 He was just as unlike any one of Miss Alice's heroes as he could stare. 1892 Good Words Jan. 348/2 He's a right Malreward, let the law say what it will, and let him look as like a gipsy as he can stare! 1996 M. Kirkland Ruby Necklace iii. 43 ‘Handsome as he can stare,’ Agnes had called him. 2005 J. Justiss Courtesan viii. 99 The woman Mae might be as vulgar as she could stare, but in a few short minutes she'd already offered more information about Belle than [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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