| 单词 | before can say knife |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbefore (one) can say knife e. before (one) can say knife: very quickly or suddenly. Also while (one) would say knife. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > immediacy > immediately [phrase] without restc1225 but bodea1300 without residence1488 before you know where you are1803 in a heartbeat1860 before (one) can say knife1874 1874 M. Clarke His Nat. Life II. iii. viii. 170 He was over the wall before you could say ‘knife’. 1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve xxxii. 443 'Fore I could say knife he was out and clane off. 1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 334 We'll pull you off before you can say knife. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 153 Toss off a glass of brandy neat while you'd say knife. 1954 A. Macrae Both Ends Meet in Plays of Year X. 509 With a couple like that you'll be in a lawsuit before you can say ‘knife’. 1973 M. Muggeridge Infernal Grove i. 71 Like alcoholics after taking the cure—never another drop; well, just a taste perhaps, and then, before you could say knife, back on the meths. < as lemmas |
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