| 单词 | a sometime thing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa sometime thing d. Passing into adjective. Frequently in a sometime thing: something which is occasional or transient. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [noun] > rare or occasional thing strawberry preaching1548 hen's teeth1700 blue moon1821 gold dust1840 a sometime thing1935 the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > transience > transient thing or being shadowa1272 breathc1275 cloudc1384 cherry-fair1393 transitorya1500 fume1531 forwhilea1557 flitter1623 ephemeran1643 daysman1658 transient1660 fugitive1683 transiency1728 ephemera1751 ephemeron1771 perishable1822 toadstool1823 evanescence1830 a sometime thing1935 1935 G. Gershwin (title of song) A woman is a sometime thing. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. p. xxxi/1 Going to the movies still entailed leaving home and paying money, so that..the movies were a ‘sometime thing’ and a reward. 1964 ‘E. McBain’ Ax vi. 115 The game..ain't regular, like you said it was. It's a sometime thing, whenever the urge strikes. 1967 Observer 19 Nov. 21/2 Money is a sometime thing for Simon Dee, here today and just possibly gone tomorrow. 1969 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 68 214 Poetic propriety is a sometime thing. 1980 Newsweek 17 Nov. 12/2 Political parties are weaker, the Federal bureaucracy has grown unwieldy and party discipline in Congress is a sometime thing. < as lemmas |
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