单词 | pas si bête |
释义 | pas si bêteint. Now rare. Not so foolish; nothing that foolish; not that stupid. Also (in quot. 1924): not so bad. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > [adjective] in (one's right) witc1000 wittyc1000 wisec1290 well-tempered1340 reasonablec1400 safe1402 perfectc1440 well in (also of) one's witsa1450 right in one's geara1500 well-advised1532 sensed1549 unmad1570 well-advised1585 rational1598 solid1606 in one's (right) senses1613 formala1616 of (in) disposing mind or memory1628 compos mentis1631 righta1638 well-hinged1649 well-balanced1652 spacked1673 clear-headed1709 sane1721 unfantastic1794 unmaddened1797 pas si bête1840 lucid1843 unfantastical1862 clothed and in one's right mind1873 right-minded1876 ungiddy1904 clear1950 1840 W. M. Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. June 727/2 I am not holding up the whole affair as a masterpiece—pas si bête. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxix. 283 ‘Emily was always as stupid as an owl,’ said Miss Blenkinsop. ‘Eh! pas si bête,’ the old Peer said. 1862 W. Collins No Name II. 82 I am not fool enough to open it. Pas si bête, as we used to say in the English circle at Zurich... Pas si bête! 1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xii. 179 ‘What about the weather?’ I asked anxiously. ‘Pas si bête,’ he said, sniffing. ‘The wind is pretty sure to go down.’ 1939 N. Marsh Overture to Death xvi. 183 ‘Try us,’ suggested the young man. ‘Pas si bête,’ said Alleyn, ‘I want my lunch.’ 1965 N. Freeling Criminal Conversat. ii. i. 102 You see how the parallel fails?..Pas si bête. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < int.1840 |
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