| 单词 | pack of lies |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspack of lies 5. A large collection or set of similar, usually abstract things. Now frequently in pack of lies. In later use chiefly derogatory.When used with a mass noun this is not readily distinguishable from sense 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount felec825 muchc1230 good wone1297 plentyc1300 bushelc1374 sight1390 mickle-whata1393 forcea1400 manynessa1400 multitudea1400 packc1400 a good dealc1430 greata1450 sackful1484 power1489 horseloadc1500 mile1508 lump1523 a deal?1532 peckc1535 heapa1547 mass1566 mass1569 gallon1575 armful1579 cart-load1587 mickle1599 bushelful1600–12 a load1609 wreck1612 parisha1616 herd1618 fair share1650 heapa1661 muchness1674 reams1681 hantle1693 mort1694 doll?1719 lift1755 acre1759 beaucoup1760 ton1770 boxload1795 boatload1807 lot1811 dollop1819 swag1819 faggald1824 screed1826 Niagara1828 wad1828 lashings1829 butt1831 slew1839 ocean1840 any amount (of)1848 rake1851 slather1857 horde1860 torrent1864 sheaf1865 oodlesa1867 dead load1869 scad1869 stack1870 jorum1872 a heap sight1874 firlot1883 oodlings1886 chunka1889 whips1888 God's quantity1895 streetful1901 bag1917 fid1920 fleetful1923 mob1927 bucketload1930 pisspot1944 shitload1954 megaton1957 mob-o-ton1975 gazillion1978 buttload1988 shit ton1991 c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. 201 (MED) Me were leuer..Haue pacience perfitlich þan half þi pakke of bokes. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 929 (MED) So cumly a pakke of joly juele Wer euel don schulde lyȝ þeroute. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 28v Brachiale: is to be vnderstanded the whole strewe, and packe of bones [L. totam eam ossium struem intelligi], intersited betwene the cubit, & Postbrachiale. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 20 Rather..Then (by concealing it) heap on your head A pack of sorrowes. View more context for this quotation 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 94 No not to purchase the whole pack of starres: There let them shine. 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 86 An endless pack of Knaveries. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. xi. 262 He talks a pack of Nonsense, that the whole Parish are his Children. View more context for this quotation 1763 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 185 Would you rather that I should write you a pack of lies? 1862 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 140 What a pack of complaints! 1880 E. B. Hamley in A. I. Shand Life E. B. Hamley (1895) II. xvi. 17 Pack of nonsense. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin x. 181 That is no excuse for your sending her a letter which is nothing but a pack of lies. 1990 Economist (Nexis) 10 Mar. [They] told a pack of fibs about their business background to get their deal past the regulatory authorities. 2000 M. S. Kimmel Gendered Society iv. 84 The vehicle by which men had been fed a pack of lies about masculinity. < as lemmas |
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