| 单词 | not pygmalion likely |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot Pygmalion likely As a jocular euphemism: = bloody adv. 2. Chiefly in not Pygmalion likely: ‘not bloody likely’.Used with reference to the fact that Shaw's Pygmalion included the phrase ‘not bloody likely’ in Act iii (see quot. 1914 at bloody adv. 2b) and was the occasion of a public sensation at the time of the first London production in 1914. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very tooc888 swith971 wellOE wellOE fullOE rightc1175 muchc1225 wellac1275 gainlya1375 endlyc1440 hard?1440 very1448 odda1500 great1535 jolly1549 fellc1600 veryvery1649 gooda1655 vastly1664 strange1667 bloody1676 ever so1686 heartily1727 real1771 precious1775 quarely1805 murry1818 très1819 freely1820 powerfula1822 gurt1824 almighty1830 heap1832 all-fired1833 gradely1850 real1856 bonny1857 heavens1858 veddy1859 canny1867 some1867 oh-so1881 storming1883 spanking1886 socking1896 hefty1898 velly1898 fair dinkum1904 plurry1907 Pygmalion1914 dinkum1915 beaucoup1918 dirty1920 molto1923 snorting1924 honking1929 hellishing1931 thumpingly1948 way1965 mega1966 mondo1968 seriously1970 totally1972 mucho1978 stonking1990 1914 Tenedos Times (1917) 85 They are really useless—Quite pygmalion useless. 1918 Western Electric News May 26/2 Were we downhearted? not Pygmalion likely! 1926 D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness xiii. 247 Not Pygmalion likely! Freddy? Couldn't write passionate letters in French to save his life. 1949 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 3) Add. 1121/1 Not Pygmalion likely! Not at all likely; certainly not! 1967 G. Fallon Rendezvous in Rio xiii. 106 ‘Are you thinking of joining in?’ ‘Not Pygmalion likely,’ Bland returned brusquely. 1976 Times 18 Mar. 11/5 My immediate reaction was to say, ‘Not Pygmalion likely’. 2004 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 24 May 36 Relax? Not Pygmalion likely! It's all got to be done again! < as lemmas |
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