| 单词 | not to be able for nuts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to be able (to do a thing) for nuts b. colloquial. Hyperbolically: anything the hearer cares to name. Chiefly in not to be able (to do a thing) for nuts: to be incompetent at something. Cf. bean n. 6e, toffee n. 2. ΚΠ 1895 W. P. Ridge Minor Dialogues 82 An' the eldest gal she thinks she can play, and, if you'll believe me, she carn't play for nuts. 1899 Times 25 Oct. 5/3 They can't shoot for nuts; go ahead. 1911 T. E. Lawrence Let. 21 May (1938) 105 I am as certain as nuts that they stood on a wall next which they were found. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 586 There was lice in that bunk in Bridgwater,... Sure as nuts. 1934 A. Thirkell Wild Strawberries xi. 237 That Miss Stevenson can't play for nuts. 1974 N.Y. Times 18 Aug. That bounding, beaming, irresistible juvenile with the patent leather hair, Douglas Fairbanks, who couldn't really act for nuts, but, boy, could he beam and bound! < as lemmas |
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