单词 | no skin off |
释义 | > as lemmasno skin off (a person) (b) no skin off a person's ass (also back, bugle, ear): = no skin off a person's nose at Phrases 14a(a). Also no skin off (a person). ΚΠ 1920 S. Lewis Main St. xxv. 312 Go to it. No skin off my ear, Nat. Think I want to be fifth wheel in the coach? 1930 Amer. Mercury Dec. 420/1 It ain't no skin off of Hymie's bugle. 1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra vi. 158 Okay. No skin off my ass. 1938 D. Baker Young Man with Horn i. iv. 41 It was no skin off Jeff what colour his old lady painted the piano. 1971 B. Malamud Tenants 35 Make it like eight [o'clock] or around that if it's no skin off you. If I miss a day don't fret on it. 1972 R. Milner in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. 378 Then Clyde said it was no skin off his ass. 1982 New Yorker 2 Jan. 25/1 I expected that much of him. It wouldn't have been any skin off his back. < as lemmas |
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