| 单词 | quite something |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquite something P4. colloquial (originally U.S.) quite something: an impressive or remarkable person or thing. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > a special thing > an) extraordinary thing(s) singularity1576 extraordinary1589 remarkable1639 extraordinary1650 something else1844 cough drop1851 quite something1909 1909 Washington Post 3 Jan. (Misc. section) 1/3 It cost the state quite something to pay for the blank ammunition that was fired off at our own men. 1956 O. Keepnews Jelly Roll Morton in View Within (1988) ii. 63 The thirty-eight-block Tenderloin District adjoining Canal Street was obviously quite something. 1968 Guardian 10 Oct. 7/2 She found out that I was sleeping with someone else and she had to accept the situation which was quite something because it wasn't even a woman. 1971 ‘L. Black’ Death has Green Fingers iii. 25 Your village seems to be quite something with the lid off. 1995 K. Atkinson Behind Scenes at Museum (1996) iii. 105 Their cousin Edmund was quite something—a handsome, brave bomb-aimer stationed at Croft and delighted to meet his English cousins. < as lemmas |
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