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单词 sad to say
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sad to say
(c) Preceded by an adjective, as sad to say, strange to say, etc.
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OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) xxiv. 221 Hi..beoð abysgode þar na ymbe godcundlice þing, ac ymbe woroldþing, and þæt sceandlic is to secganne [L. quod dictu nefas est], ymbe fracede and fullice spræca.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie i. 268 Both joy'd in being Conquer'd (strange to say) And yet both mourn'd because both won the day.
1797 tr. C.-F. Dumouriez Acct. Portugal Pref. 6 Strange to say, its government forbids the exertion.
1818 T. Moore Diary 26 Oct. in Mem. (1853) II. 175 Which disconcerted the latter (who, strange to say, is a very grave, steady person) considerably.
1850 Brit. Q. Rev. Aug. 138 Men, sad to say, though they admit the unanswerable ability of a speech, seldom allow their votes to be influenced by it.
1897 Notre Dame Scholastic 27 Feb. 338/1 One Thursday morning, blithe and gay A roguish student ‘skived’ away; He met the Prefect—sad to say—And got six notes.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1290 Man's neck is..relatively long, strange to say, as compared with a whale's, though the whale belongs to the same class, Mammalia.
1950 Classical Weekly 43 116/1 Our contemporary world rejects the classics. It applauds psychology, educationism, science, and, sad to say, the social studies.
1998 P. McCabe Breakfast on Pluto (1999) xxxviii. 143 You were made of strong stuff and no mistake—which, sorry to say, Miss Pussy wasn't!
1999 New Musical Express 30 Oct. 39/5 Safe to say, the Buffalo boys have wrung every last drop of fire or skill out of the song.
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