| 单词 | as fast as one's legs can carry one |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas fast as one's legs can carry one P2. as fast as one's legs can carry one and variants: as fast as one is able to run, walk, etc.; as quickly as one can; at top speed. ΚΠ 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1633/1 He [sc. Latimer] ranne as fast as hys old bones would cary him. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 115 So I took a head, and ran into the country as fast as my feet could carry me. 1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook II. vii. 34 ‘Follow me as fast as your little pins can carry you,’ said the other. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song ii. 79 in Scots Quair (1995) You'd to speed quick as your legs could carry you to fire the frontward bushes when those behind raged out with their flames and smoke in your hair. 2001 K. Glowczewska tr. R. Kapuściński Shadow of Sun (2002) 70 Small children run away at the sight of me as fast as their legs can carry them, and hide in the corners. < as lemmas |
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