| 单词 | not if i can help it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot if I (he, she, etc.) can (also could) help it not if I (he, she, etc.) can (also could) help it: used to indicate that the person specified will try to ensure that something (mentioned earlier) does not come to pass; cf. sense 11a, not if I know it at know v. Phrases 15b. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [phrase] not if I can help it1682 I'll be far (enough) if1752 I'll be shot (occasionally shortened to shot!) if1761 to have none of it1849 not if you paid me1853 not likely1878 that's your problem1951 1682 A. Behn False Count i. i. 2 Car. How, Are not you to marry his Daughter Isabella? Anto. Not, if I can help it, Sir. 1769 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! II. ii. 15 I shall murder it by my description!—not if I can help it—I have too great a veneration for the character to injure it in the smallest degree. 1840 Times 14 May 5 ‘She is to be transported for incendiarism.’ ‘Not if I can help it,’ promptly replied the Lord-Lieutenant. 1921 R. A. Maher Wks. of Satan 307 Left to themselves, they wouldn't spend a night in the woods, not if they could help it. 1991 C. Skye Black Rose viii. 110 Hawkins would never find his man. Not if Tess could help it! 2003 I. Rankin Question of Blood (2004) ii. 40 ‘You ever listen to heavy metal, Siobhan?’ ‘Not if I can help it.’ < as lemmas |
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