| 单词 | a peck of trouble |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa peck of trouble(s) 4. A considerable quantity or number; a great deal, a heap, a lot. Chiefly in a peck of trouble(s). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount felec825 muchc1230 good wone1297 plentyc1300 bushelc1374 sight1390 mickle-whata1393 forcea1400 manynessa1400 multitudea1400 packc1400 a good dealc1430 greata1450 sackful1484 power1489 horseloadc1500 mile1508 lump1523 a deal?1532 peckc1535 heapa1547 mass1566 mass1569 gallon1575 armful1579 cart-load1587 mickle1599 bushelful1600–12 a load1609 wreck1612 parisha1616 herd1618 fair share1650 heapa1661 muchness1674 reams1681 hantle1693 mort1694 doll?1719 lift1755 acre1759 beaucoup1760 ton1770 boxload1795 boatload1807 lot1811 dollop1819 swag1819 faggald1824 screed1826 Niagara1828 wad1828 lashings1829 butt1831 slew1839 ocean1840 any amount (of)1848 rake1851 slather1857 horde1860 torrent1864 sheaf1865 oodlesa1867 dead load1869 scad1869 stack1870 jorum1872 a heap sight1874 firlot1883 oodlings1886 chunka1889 whips1888 God's quantity1895 streetful1901 bag1917 fid1920 fleetful1923 mob1927 bucketload1930 pisspot1944 shitload1954 megaton1957 mob-o-ton1975 gazillion1978 buttload1988 shit ton1991 c1535 in Archaeologia (1834) 25 97 The said George..told hym that Mr. More was in a pecke of troubles. 1592 Arden of Feversham l. 1040 Me thinks I see them..Insulting ore there with a peck of oathes. a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize (1647) iii. v. 112 Run for a Physitian, And a whole peck of Pothecaries, Pedro. 1664 J. Scudamore Homer a la Mode 2 Did bring upon the Græcians, double Foure or five hundred pecks of trouble. 1729 J. Swift Let. to Bolingbroke 5 Apr. in Lett. Dr. Swift (1741) 102 There may be an equal quantity of virtues always in the world, but sometimes there may be a peck of it in Asia. 1780 J. Woodforde Diary 19 Sept. (1924) I. 291 Will was in a Peck of troubles about it. 1811 Ld. Byron Let. 9 Sept. (1973) II. 94 Poor Murray is ill again, & one of my Greek servants is ill too, & my valet has got a pestilent cough, so that we are in a peck of troubles. 1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 283 Either she's mad or in a peck of trouble, to come..in this rig-up. 1971 Language 47 525 They audited it and I got into a peck of trouble. 1988 K. Amis Difficulties with Girls ii. 16 Breasts had brought Jenny a peck of trouble over the years. < as lemmas |
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