单词 | not as —— as all that |
释义 | > as lemmasnot as (also so) —— as all that (c) not as (also so) —— as all that: not as —— as that amounts to; not quite as —— as that. Π 1876 J. Greenwood Low-life Deeps 255 I ain't so fond of the steel (prison) as all that. 1894 Sat. Rev. 21 Apr. 409/1 But perhaps it is not so bad as all that. 1921 Drama Mag. Aug. 418/2 Oh, come now—come now. We're not as far up in the world as all that. 1929 W. Lewis Enemy (1968) II. 23 He has done the worst that can be done, and it actually is not so impressive as all that. 1930 E. Waugh Vile Bodies v. 82 ‘Do you mind terribly?’ ‘Not as much as all that,’ said Nina, and added in Cockney, ‘Charmed, I'm sure.’ 1956 J. Baldwin Giovanni's Room (1988) ii. iii. 145 It's not so tragic as all that. 1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 June 50/3 The essay..suggests that class distinctions were not as absent as all that from nineteenth-century Burlington. < as lemmas |
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