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单词 it is all over with
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it is all over with (a person)
4. Completely over; at an end; finished. Frequently in it is all over, it is all over with (a person), indicating a person's life is about to end or be ruined. Also sometimes: at a point where a particular outcome is imminent or certain, even though the event or situation is still in progress.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > the end [phrase] > at an end
at an upshot1653
all over1664
the jig is over1777
the jig is up1800
all up1825
the last of pea-time1834
(all) washed up1923
the party is over1931
1664 True Acct. Arraignment Col. J. Turner 59 By six of the clock this business will be all over.
1688 Bp. G. Burnet Three Lett. State of Italy 162 It was all over, long before I came to Turin; but..all the Court there, were ashamed of the matter.
a1722 J. Lauder Hist. Observes (1840) App. iv. 306 The tyke might have been queikened ere it had been all over, ilk ply as it were rancountering another wresling and fighting in his hass.
1765 C. Brietzcke Diary 22 June in Notes & Queries (1963) Aug. 307/1 Walkd in the Park with Mr. Stanhope who seems to think it is all over with Us.
1805 Ld. Nelson in R. Southey Life Nelson (1813) II. ix. 260 I am a dead man, Hardy..I am going fast:—it will be all over with me soon.
1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 134 Sir Thomas [Steward] makes his will in this same month of January..; and on the 30th it was all over.
1857 J. Ruskin Elements Drawing iii. 216 If you once begin to..try this way and that with your colour, it is all over with it and with you.
1917 U. Sinclair King Coal i. 30 A man might sink to sleep as he lay at work, and if his..helper, happened to be out of sight.., it would be all over with the man.
1963 ‘J. le Carré’ Spy who came in from Cold xi. 101 And then I asked him, ‘Is this goodbye?’—whether it was all over.
1991 Sports Illustr. 14 Oct. 31/3 Chicago got back to 10–7 on a third-quarter march, but then the turnovers came, and it was all over for the Bears.
2001 Financial Times (Nexis) 17 Mar. 3 When the crisis was all over he hoped he might return.
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