| 单词 | riddle me this |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriddle me this (also that, †why) P3. riddle me this (also that, †why): ‘here's a riddle’; ‘answer this riddle’, (also) ‘tell me this’. ΚΠ 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado for Divell sig. Z4 Riddle me this. a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 38 Riddle me this: what's he, that to Rome came [etc.]? 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer v. 93 Riddle me this then. What's that goes round the house, and round the house, and never touches the house? 1837 Metrop. Mag. Nov. 320/2 What do you say to her refusing to have a review, eh?.. Riddle me that. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth lxxxvii. 216 Think? Why I should be dead else. Riddle me that. 1891 H. Pyle Men of Iron xi. 88 Canst thou riddle me why it is so, Myles? 1943 J. T. Farrell My Days of Anger iv. xix. 278 He has gone out of the world with all he came in with. Now riddle me that, will you? 1977 T. Murphy Famine xi. 86 Whist now a minute and riddle me this. 2006 A. Robbins Overachievers ix. 226 Ok now riddle me this: do you think we will be able to go on being just real good friends after this? < as lemmas |
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