| 单词 | like a million dollars |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(like) a million dollars c. Colloquial phrases (originally and chiefly U.S.): bottom dollar, see bottom n. and adj. Compounds 3; (it is) dollars to doughnuts (or (it is) dollars to buttons, etc.), (it is) almost assured; a certainty; (like) a million dollars, see million adj. and n. ΚΠ 1884 G. W. Peck Peck's Boss Bk. 130 It is dollars to buttons that..she will be blown through the roof. 1890 Texas Siftings 8 Nov. 6/3 It is dollars to a doughnut..That some one will start a fire. 1904 Boston Herald 8 Aug. 6 It is dollars to cobwebs that every such person will be disappointed. 1904 Utica (N.Y.) Observer 29 June 6 They talk of fire drills;..it is dollars to doughnuts that not an excursion boat in New York harbor ever had one. 1932 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 390/2 It is dollars to doughnuts not a soul will see him. 1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xiii. 131 If he were seen it was dollars to doughnuts that he would be arrested. (like) a million dollars (also bucks) 5. colloquial (chiefly North American). (like) a million dollars (also bucks): extremely good or attractive; wonderful, splendid, excellent. Usually preceded by to feel (or look). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > and splendid wlonkOE clear1362 wlonkfulc1400 royalc1425 imperial?1435 magnificousa1474 splendidious?a1475 triumphant1494 glorious1622 aureate1625 candid1648 splendid1653 magnifico1654 magnificent1664 dazzling1749 splendiferous1827 angeliferous1837 million-dollar1854 purple1894 colossal1895 (like) a million dollars (also bucks)1911 swell1926 1911 C. G. Roe Prodigal Daughter 58 A good dinner looked like a million dollars to me then. 1925 P. G. Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves iii. 55 It was one of those topping mornings, and I had just climbed out from under the cold shower feeling like a million dollars. 1933 E. E. Cummings eimi 109 Something which might be port..‘Looks like a million dollars’—and which tastes like awfully watered vino rosso à l'américain. 1944 Princeton Alumni Weekly 24 Mar. 16/1 Waddy Ingersoll seen at the Racquet Club bar (on quick leave) looking like a million bucks. 1947 Time 17 Mar. 43 You'll go home feeling like a million dollars, rested and refreshed as never before! 1956 D. Gascoyne Night Thoughts 35 You'd look a million dollars at your worst. 1973 E. Boyd & R. Parkes Dark Number xiii. 150 Dorothy looked, as they say, a million dollars: brushed, scrubbed, wholesome and sane. 2006 T. McEwen in Granta Summer 122 His suit was temporarily stuffed into her luggage... Has it suffered? Has it hell. It looks like a million bucks. < as lemmas |
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