单词 | one cannot be doing with |
释义 | > as lemmasone cannot be doing with c. British colloquial (originally Scottish). one cannot be doing with: one is unwilling to tolerate or be bothered with. ΚΠ 1896 ‘L. Keith’ Indian Uncle 166 We canna be doing wi' sick folks, us that has a fine gentleman veesitor on our hands. 1908 S. R. Crockett Deep Moat Grange iv. 33 Jeremy cannot be doing with grown women about the hoose o' Breckonside. 1966 B. Brophy Don't never Forget 313 Snobberies and titles are to her absurd affectations which she can't, as she says, ‘be doing with’. 1984 A. N. Wilson Hilaire Belloc (1986) iv. 67 Belloc was a man to whom sex was visibly important, but who nevertheless could not be doing with it. 2004 D. Peace GB 84 370/1 They'd come up to you in street and call you a liar to your face—I couldn't be doing with it. < as lemmas |
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