| 单词 | not to have all day | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to have all day  e.  With a noun denoting a period of time, or an event, activity, etc., which has a finite duration: the whole duration or period of. Usually forming a noun phrase used as the adverbial component of a clause. Frequently (usually colloquial) used hyperbolically denoting an inordinately long or excessive period of time, esp. in  to be (also take) all day,  not to have all day, etc. extracted from alladj.pron.n.adv.conj. (a) Preceding the noun without determiner or other modifying word. ΚΠ OE    Paris Psalter 		(1932)	 lv. 9  				Ic ealne dæg ecne drihten wordum weorðige. c1175    Ormulum 		(Burchfield transcript)	 l. 1104  				He wass all daȝȝ Vnnclene anan till efenn. a1350    in  G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics 		(1968)	 50  				For hire loue al nyht ich wake; for hire loue mournyng y make more þen eny mon. c1400						 (?c1380)						    Cleanness 		(1920)	 l. 779  				In longyng al nyȝt he lengeȝ. 1535    Bible 		(Coverdale)	 Judges xix. 13  				Tarye at Gibea or at Ramah allnight. 1581    N. Woodes Conflict of Conscience  iv. i. sig. Fiiv  				Let him go Hypocrisie, stand not all day dodging. 1600    A. Munday et al.  First Pt. True Hist. Sir I. Old-castle sig. F2  				Sirrha, no more adoe, come, come, giue me the mony you have, dispatch, I cannot stand all day. a1616    W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well 		(1623)	  ii. i. 90  				Nay, Ile fit you, And not be all day  neither.       View more context for this quotation 1706    S. Centlivre Basset-table  v. 59  				Come, come, Sir, we cann't wait all Day. 1719    D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 82  				It rain'd all Night and all Day,..during which time the Ship broke in Pieces. 1770    I. Bickerstaff 'Tis Well it's no Worse  ii. i. 39  				Beat.: Lazarillo, I say, will you be all day? Laz.: Coming, Mrs. Beatrice, coming. 1775    J. Nourse in  Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 		(1925)	 19 351  				Water enough for Cattle may be kept all year here for pasture grounds. 1846    R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Prelim. Ess. ii. 11  				This speaking is diffused over all time. 1865    ‘L. Carroll’ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ix. 142  				Drive on, old fellow! Don't be all day about it! 1865    C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I.  ii. xii. 271  				Ain't you got nothing to do but..stand a Poll Parroting all night? 1894    J. B. Salmond My Man Sandy 		(rev. ed.)	 93  				But a' forenicht I hard Sandy wirrin' awa' till himsel'. 1907    E. M. Forster Longest Journey iv. 63  				He muddles all day with poetry and old dead people, and then tries to bring it into life. 1958    J. Yaffe Nothing but Night 63  				You know, I haven't got all morning, I've got a business to get to. 1983    T. Pratchett Colour of Magic 135  				It is allowable to issue a challenge by proxy... It shows intelligence. Don't take all day about it. 1985    Telegraph 		(Austral.)	 		(Nexis)	 1 Apr.  				He used his slice serve to advantage on the slippery and low bouncing centre court and returned very well all match. 1992    J. Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! xxix. 260  				‘For any favour, do hurry along,’ she commanded, ‘We haven't got all day.’ 2006    New Woman Dec. 190/2  				Passionate Mars in your ‘sex’ zone all month. You'll be a total man-magnet and at the top of everyone's guest list.  (b) Preceding a determiner or other modifying word. ΚΠ OE    Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in  tr.  Orosius Hist. 		(Tiber.)	 		(1980)	  i. i. 16  				Ealle ða hwile he sceal seglian be lande. c1275						 (?a1200)						    Laȝamon Brut 		(Calig.)	 		(1963)	 l. 3192  				Moni bisi kempen, Þeo fihten wið þone duke al þene dæi longe. c1405						 (c1385)						    G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 		(Hengwrt)	 		(2003)	 l. 671  				And songen al the roundel lustily. c1425    in  E. Edwards Liber Monasterii de Hyda 		(1866)	 158  				I wole that my men..dele hem of my good al the whyle they on lyve ben. 1483    W. Caxton tr.  J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cccixv/2  				For to adaunte & subdue my prowde flesshe I rose at mydnyght alle the weke long. 1523    Ld. Berners tr.  J. Froissart Cronycles I. ciii. 124  				They helde the Englysshe archers well aworke all the day. 1597    W. Shakespeare Richard II  iii. ii. 170  				You haue but mistooke me al this  while.       View more context for this quotation 1622    F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 106  				The King..kept Triumphes of Iusting and Tourney during all that Moneth. 1676    G. Etherege Man of Mode  i. i. 2  				They're ever poaching after Whores all the Morning. 1720    W. R. Chetwood Voy. Capt. R. Falconer  i. 64  				It shak'd its Tail to and fro..all the while it felt the Water. 1768    J. Wesley Let. 28 Mar. 		(1931)	 V. 358  				Possibly some may be in the favour of God, and yet go mourning all the day long. 1824    L. L. Cameron Hist. Marten & Two Little Scholars 		(new ed.)	 ii. 12  				On Sunday morning he looked so clean..that nobody would have thought he had been driving a jenny-carriage all the week. c1860    Chaise in  Royal Bk. of Sports 		(March's Penny Libr.)	  				Come Jenny, don't be all the day. 1934    A. L. Rowse Diary 5 Mar. 		(2003)	 81  				All that weekend I was in a dazed condition, not knowing what to do with myself. 1974    A. Pierrepoint Executioner i. 24  				We spent all the day at the Crystal Palace in peace and quiet. 2000    Star-Ledger 		(Newark, New Jersey)	 17 Jan. 38/3 		(heading)	  				All this week at 8 p.m., the History Channel presents ‘History's Mysteries: Conspiracy Theories’. 2008    C. Gleason When Twilight Burns xii. 157  				Now, spit it out, my lady's not got all the day to wait for ye to figger out what t'say.  (c) spec. Followed by a. Compare a adj. 1b(a). Now somewhat archaic.Replaced by a whole in standard English. ΚΠ ?a1160    Anglo-Saxon Chron. 		(Laud)	 		(Peterborough contin.)	 anno 1137  				Hi..brendon alle the tunes, ðat wel þu myhtes faren al a dæis fare, sculdest thu neure finden man in tune sittende. c1300    St. Brendan 		(Laud)	 60 in  C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary 		(1887)	 221 (MED)  				Here ȝe habbez al a ȝer meteles i-beo. a1375						 (c1350)						    William of Palerne 		(1867)	 l. 2215 (MED)  				Þei trauailed al a niȝt. ?a1400						 (a1338)						    R. Mannyng Chron. 		(Petyt)	 		(1996)	  i. 9230  				Alle a seuenyght [a1450 Lamb. al a wyke] þe kyng þer lay, he spilte his tyme, sped of no pray. c1405						 (c1395)						    G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale 		(Hengwrt)	 		(2003)	 l. 640  				She wepeth, wayleth, al a day or two. a1425						 (a1400)						    Prick of Conscience 		(Galba & Harl.)	 		(1863)	 l. 3010  				A malady..lastand alle a yhere. 1523    Ld. Berners tr.  J. Froissart Cronycles I. liv. 75  				Ther was one [assault] endured al a day. 1534    J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. Aiv  				Ye Stood in colde water all a day to the kne And I halfe the same day to myd leg in the fyer. 1610    G. Markham Maister-peece lxix. 334  				Rope his legge all a day with wet hay-ropes, and hee will be sound. 1667    J. Milton Paradise Lost  i. 449  				To lament his fate In amorous dittyes all a Summers  day.       View more context for this quotation a1718    T. Parnell Posthumous Wks. 		(1758)	 273  				Where Wretched Love endur'd a world of woe, For all a Winter's length of night below. a1763    W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose 		(1764)	 II. 282  				He that lies a-bed all a summer's morning, loses the chief pleasure of the day. 1837    E. Webbe Let. in  Corr. L. Hunt 		(1862)	 324  				I must say I have found many things more pleasant than dabbling all a summer's evening in one's own lifeblood. 1853    M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in  Poems 		(new ed.)	 207  				Children..Have known thee watching, all an April day. 1903    M. Dods et al.  Expos. Bible VI. 795/2  				We might impose upon ourselves the penance of being shut up all a winter's night with a corpse. 1915    R. Le Gallienne Lonely Dancer 119  				Each petal fleeting as a wing, All a May morning blows and blows. 2006    J. T. Kirby Mockingbird Song 146  				He and his two local guides traveled all a July day on foot. < as lemmas  | 
	
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