| 单词 | it's a thought |
| 释义 | > as lemmasit's (also there's, etc.) a thought d. spec. In singular: an idea worth considering; a plausible or interesting suggestion. Often in it's (also there's, etc.) a thought, used to express approval of a comment or suggestion; cf. it's an idea at idea n. Phrases 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > possibility > [noun] > a possible thing or circumstance possibilityc1460 perhapsa1535 potential1587 potentiality1587 maybe1598 contingencya1626 contingent1655 conceivable1659 possiblea1674 conceptiblea1676 cogitable1678 chance1778 it's an idea1841 may1849 might1850 thought1857 possibly1881 shot1923 1857 H. Melville Confidence-man vii. 60 Quite a thought. But, pray explain it. 1871 W. H. Codrington Under the Earth iii. iv. 242 ‘What, murder the individual? Do you think the individual has been foully dealt by?’ ‘It is a thought.’ 1922 J. Galsworthy Family Man in Plays (1923) iii. i. 91 Quite a thought, Cook! Quite a thought! 1980 J. Ditton Copley's Hunch ii. iii. 154 ‘It's a thought, sir.’.. ‘If so, it doesn't help us.’ 1997 Jewish Press 7 Feb. 5 Maybe they [sc. sensationalist tabloids] ought to be hidden from general view, like some places do with ‘girlie’ magazines. Now there's a thought. 2005 S. Guttenplan Objects of Metaphor ii. 73 One thought might be: cases of qualification may well be ubiquitous, but the fact that they require so much stage-setting suggests that they are not somehow central to what we take predication to be. < as lemmas |
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