单词 | nothing like to |
释义 | > as lemmasnothing like to a. nothing like. (a) With noun: not at all like, not resembling at all; also †nothing like to (obsolete); (b) In other constructions: not by any means, not nearly. Cf. anything like at anything pron., n., and adv. Phrases 2, something like at something adv. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [phrase] > totally different nothing like?a1425 as like as an apple to an oyster1533 eyes and (also or) no eyes1656 the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > not at all never-a-dealc1250 no dealc1250 not a dealc1250 no grue13.. not a (one) grue13.. for no (kin) meedc1330 in (also by and without preposition) no mannerc1330 nothing like?a1425 by no (manner of) means (also mean)c1440 at no handa1500 never, not (etc.) a whit (awhit, a-whit)1523 not a quincha1566 by leisure1590 ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 150 (MED) Þe stenche þer of is no þinge liche to þe stenche of a canker. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 3023 Hir woys was..nothyng lyke a mannys voise in soun. a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 133 Not of that effycacyte as is spoken of, nor nothing like. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xliijv Not so much credit to be giuen vnto them, nothing like, as to the scripture. 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) iii. v, in Wks. I. 41 This Gentleman do's it, rarely too! but nothing like the other. a1649 W. Drummond Poet. Wks. (1913) I. 132 The Sunne from East to West who all doth see, On this low Globe sees nothing like to thee. 1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xxxiv. 313 He knew you well enough, not to be so mistaken: for the party that was in that habit was nothing like you. 1739 P. Aubin Madam de Beaumont i. 238 Our homely Cell, indeed, is nothing like the splendid Places I have heard you talk of. 1782 E. Blower George Bateman III. 111 [She sits her horse] nothing like so well as you used to do. 1815 Zeluca I. 194 Nothing like so excellent as your epigrammatic translation. 1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux II. xxxi. 256 An entry into the borough so triumphant that nothing like to it had ever been known at Tankerville. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 771/1 Exposure to air and rain also causes slight corrosion, but to nothing like the same extent as occurs with iron, copper or brass. 1933 E. A. Robertson Ordinary Families ii. 34 The Cottrells were nothing like ready, to father's annoyance. 1991 J. C. Oates Heat & Other Stories 62 Mrs. Dietrich looked nothing like the extraordinary woman in Rossetti's painting. < as lemmas |
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