单词 | not so bad as makes it |
释义 | > as lemmasnot so (also as) bad as (he, she) makes it d. transitive. With adjective, †past participle, or †phrase as complement. Now chiefly in negative comparisons, as not so (also as) bad as (he, she) makes it, etc. Cf. to make out at Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 17 b To saie, yt euerie man should haue an eie onelie to his owne affaires, is nothing else but to make man like to beasts. 1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 32 Not withstandinge that Hollybande, in his frenche-Englishe dictionarye, make yt of the valewe of a duckett. 1675 T. Hobbes in tr. Homer Odysses To Rdr. sig. B3v Homer begins not his Iliad with the injury done by Paris, but makes it related by Menelaus. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) x. 117 The King's Subjects are not in so bad a condition as discontented Men would make them. 1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough II. 201 The Enemy's Army is not so numerous as they make it. 1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 493 This climate..is not so bad..as some Anglophobes would make it. 1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xiv. 128 Macbeth is not half so bad as the play makes him. < as lemmas |
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