英语词汇“as fat as a house”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P8. hyperbolical. In similative and figurative phrases, as the type of something (excessively) large, wide, etc., as as big as a house, as fat as a house, etc.

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a1816 G. Hardinge in J. Nichols Illustr. Lit. Hist. 18th Cent. (1818) IV. 37 Higgledy-piggledy, in they came.—Fanny well drest; and, though big as a house, in very good looks.

1877 Hagerstown (Maryland) Mail 16 Nov. 6/1 The bride's trunks, as big as houses, every one of 'em.

1942 Boston Globe 15 Mar. 42/3 You can be fat as a house and still not be well fed.

1945 M. Gellhorn Let. 29 July in Sel. Lett. (2006) 177 She's not a mean woman at all; probably has a heart the size of a house and solid gold.

1980 B. Plain Random Winds 404 These muffins! I'd be as fat as a house if I lived with you!

1993 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 12 Feb. 2 f I was 8½ months pregnant with my first child and was as big as a house.

2011 E. Doucett What They don't teach You in Libr. School 63 I set a timetable for myself to determine when I will address the issue. This keeps me from avoiding something until it gets to be the size of a house.

单词	as fat as a house
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