| 单词 | no great things |
| 释义 | > as lemmasno great things P8. colloquial. no great things: (in predicative use): nothing great, nothing much, of ordinary quality or character. Cf. to be no great shakes at shake n.1 7. Now rare (chiefly Irish English in later use). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > little importance or triviality simpleness1440 toyousness1581 triflingnessa1586 triviality1598 pusillage1610 inconsiderableness1646 shrimpishness1651 unsignificancy1659 trivialnessa1687 no great things1776 cobwebbery1837 mereness1909 picayunity1948 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > collectively no great things1776 underscrubbery1851 1776 Battle of Brooklyn i. 11 Bet. Now, mem, is not Harrison a dirty fellow, in every shape, that you can view him? Lady G. No great things, girl, to be sure, from your account of him. 1786 C. Johnstone Adventures Anthony Varnish II. xxiii. 142 As for the matter of that, my life is no great things. 1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master vii. 184 Now I shall give,—‘the Governor’,—He's no great things, between us, Sir. 1842 W. M. Thackeray Miss Tickletoby's Lect. vi His scholarship..I take it, was no great things. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 352 That old place at Bowning..I don't believe it was any great things. 1895 J. Barlow Strangers at Lisconnel iv. 52 Pitting himself singly against three opponents, two of them better men than he, who was ‘no great things at all, let alone havin' one knee quare’. 1924 H. A. Robinson Further Memories Irish Life xi. 132 He told me it was a piece of wooden statuary swathed in flannel... It was ‘no great things’ at securing general all-round blessings, so my informant assured me. < as lemmas |
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