单词 | as get-out |
释义 | > as lemmasas (also like) (all) get-out 1. Chiefly British regional and U.S. regional. as (also like) (all) get-out: as is possible, as could possibly be. ΚΠ 1831 Constellation 2 265/1 Up comes one of these fellowes as impudent as get-out. 1838 J. C. Neal Charcoal Sketches 12 We look as elegant and as beautiful as get out. 1854 A. L. Stimson Easy Nat xxix. 245 I'm as hungry as all git out! 1869 W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Prov. & Phr. 60 As common as get out. Cornw. 1881 J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh 119 He glooart at meh as impident as git oot. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxxviii. 325 We got to dig in like all git-out. 1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap v. 197 When I got into the parlour she had them on, pleased as all get-out. 1959 M. Steen Tower i. ii. 35 By then I was as drunk as all-get-out. 1967 V. Canning Python Project vii. 146 They looked as comfortable as all get-out. 1996 J. Doran Red Doran 92 These spars usually turned out to be as near the real thing as get out. 2008 New Yorker 3 Mar. 16/2 Michael Trusnovec, five feet ten inches tall, with red-gold hair, and strong as all getout. < as lemmas |
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