| 单词 | better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbetter than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick b. colloquial. a poke in the eye: something undesirable. Esp. in better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick and variants: not the worst thing that could happen, something minimally desirable. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [noun] > an advantage, benefit, or favourable circumstance > a benefit > that makes happy or prosperous > minimally better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick1844 1844 R. H. Barham in New Monthly Mag. Feb. 326 Didn't his Majesty call it all flummery, Scorning The warning, And get the next morning His poke in the eye from that clumsy Montgomery? 1852 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 4 Dec. (1954) II. 71 ‘Then,’ he said..‘Here are those “Letters from Ireland” which I hope will be something better than a poke in the eye.’ 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 273 ‘A poke i' the eye wi' a burnt stick’, is a phrase setting up a sort of standard by which to estimate the desirability of any existing or hypothetical contingency. 1944 J. Cary Horse's Mouth xvi. 81 Anarchists who love God always fall for Spinoza because he tells them that God doesn't love them. This is just what they need. A poke in the eye. 1961 F. Brown Murderers x. 125 It would be thirty-seven bucks and some odd cents. I told him that that was better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. 2004 Canberra Times (Nexis) 26 Jan. a30 There's not a lot of money in Australia to make a living from it so even if you come home with a couple of hundred dollars it's better than a poke in the eye. < as lemmas |
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