单词 | no fear |
释义 | > as lemmas(there is) no fear a. Ground or reason for alarm. Chiefly in phrase (there is) no fear; now often used as an exclamation. The usual sense of no fear is now ‘not likely’, ‘certainly not’. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > negation > [interjection] > not likely or certainly not (there is) no fear1887 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lii[i]. 5 They are afrayed, where no feare is. a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iii. i. 43 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) Give him but Sage and Butter..And there's no fear. 1699 W. Hacke Coll. Orig. Voy. iv. 7 No fear but they might get 2 or 3 thousand Dollards per man. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 56 Pho! pho! there is no fear of their knowing any thing of the matter. 1817 A. Constable Let. 25 Dec. in J. Constable Corr. (1962) 167 Being very clean, and good temper'd, she hop'd there was no fear of her suiting you. 1861 Times 25 May ‘Is there any fear, Captain?’ 1887 E. E. Money Little Dutch Maiden (1888) 338 He will never go hence..no fear. 1930 A. Bennett Imperial Palace xii. 73 I invite him to dinner! And in his own hotel! No fear! 1966 J. B. Priestley Salt is Leaving xii. 172 No fear! I wouldn't be found dead in Birkden. < as lemmas |
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