| 单词 | one of those things |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(just) one of those things g. colloquial. (just) one of those things: something inevitable or inexplicable; a fact or happening about which one cannot do anything. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > necessity [phrase] > inevitability without (any) replicationc1405 (just) one of those things1922 1922 R. D. Paine Roads of Adventure xxii. 228 I wonder if we could blast the secret out of a French dictionary. Probably not. We shall never know. It is just one of those things. 1935 C. Porter (title of song) Just one of those things. 1941 C. Morgan Empty Room i. 46 ‘What is it, Carey?’ She smiled. ‘Nothing. One of those things.’ 1974 M. Babson Stalking Lamb xviii. 136 The price was too high..to be shrugged off as ‘just one of those things’. 1991 Gardener Jan. 15/2 For those of you wondering why annual wildflowers continue to renew themselves and their seeds germinate satisfactorily when they have been shed naturally, but rarely do so when scattered with grass seed from a packet, I can only comment that it is just one of those things. < as lemmas |
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