英语词汇“the great —— in the sky”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Phrases

P1. to the skies (also sky): to the highest possible degree; enthusiastically, extravagantly. In later use esp. in to praise to the skies.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > in or to the greatest degree

never solOE

with (also mid) the mostc1275

for the masteryc1325

to the bestc1390

to the uttermostc1400

at the hardest1429

to the utmostc1450

to the skies (also sky)1559

at float1594

all to nothing1606

to the height1609

to the proofa1625

to the last degree1639

to the welkin?1746

(the) worst kind1839

for all it's worth1864

as —— as they make them?a1880

in the highest1897

to the nth (degree, power)1897

up to eleven1987

1559 Passage Quene Elyzabeth (new ed.) sig. A.iii Blessing tonges, which many a welcome say Which pray thou maist do wel, which praise the to the sky.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. ii. ii. 104 Italians..alwaies extoll their owne things to the skie.

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. iii. 191 Those of any Piety or Religion, commended it to the Skyes.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 71 You were extoll'd to the Skies, I assure you.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. viii. 196 The shield of Nestor, bruited to the skies.

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 25 Rhymsters who praise 'em to the skies, And meanest actions eulogize.

1845 Brit. Farmer's Mag. Oct. 301 Some farmers cried it up to the skies, while others condemned it as useless.

1881 J. T. Wheeler Hist. India IV. ii. vii. 330 Flatterers applauded it to the skies.

1941 H. I. Priestley in War & Survival 125 The great dictators protest to the skies that all they seek is peace.

1973 P. J. Seybold Revolutionary Educ. in China xiv. 156 At one time they shouted ‘Long live the teachers’.., praising them to the skies.

2013 Church Times 15 Feb. 26/4 There were performances one could praise to the skies.

P2. the sky is falling and variants: used to indicate an alarmist, melodramatic, or hysterical sense of impending disaster. Also attributive or as adj. [With allusion to the folk tale of Chicken Little (also Chicken Licken), first recorded in 1823 in Danish by J. M. Thiele, in which a chicken spreads alarm after mistakenly believing that the sky is falling and the world is coming to end. See, e.g., quot. 1851, and compare the following from the earliest recorded English version:

1840 J. G. Chandler Remarkable story Chicken Little 2 Chicken Little..ran under a rose-bush, and a leaf fell on her tail; so she was dreadfully frightened, and ran away to Hen Pen. ‘Oh, Hen Pen,’ said she, ‘the sky is falling!’

]

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1834 St. James's Chron. 22 Nov. They talk of the ‘astounding effect’ produced by the news of the ejection of the Whig-Radical administration; but we can assure them that in our part of the country the sky has not fallen.

1851 Rep. Proc. Exam. C. G. Davis 25 Only some frightened innocents, like the goose, the duck and the turkey in the fable, say the sky is falling, and they must go and tell the king!

1882 F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life III. 383 With the Tories, one has long been familiar with their cries that ‘the sky is falling’.

1918 C. J. Bulliet Robert Mantell's Romance v. 28 No questions were asked. The sky didn't fall. Bobbie had ‘got away with it’.

1931 Timberman Aug. 23/1 When prosperity is booming most of us think the sky is the limit; then when depression comes we go to the other extreme and think the sky is falling.

1967 Redlands (Calif.) Daily Facts 25 Jan. 5/3 The ‘Chicken Little—the sky is falling’ attitude on the part of the scholars, has added to the fires of confusion.

2015 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 29 Dec. (Sports section) b7 When Canada lost its first preliminary game for the first time in five years, there was the usual sky-is-falling concern spreading across the country.

P3. out of a clear (blue) sky and variants: without warning, completely unexpectedly. Cf. out of the blue at blue adj. and n. Phrases 5b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [adverb] > without warning

on, in, or at unwarec1070

unwarec1100

unwaresa1122

uniwaresa1200

unwarelyc1200

on uniware1297

unwarneda1325

unadvised1390

unbewares1483

unbeware1489

unwarnishedly1513

unawarnistly1533

unadvisedlyc1535

unawares1535

at unwaresa1547

unwarnedly1563

at unawares1564

unwarily1569

at unaware1598

unaware1667

of all things1778

out of a clear (blue) sky1875

out of the blue1879

unawaredly1895

1836 Mississippi Free Trader & Natchez Gaz. 22 July The late veto of President Jackson..was like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.

1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary v. iii. 264 So from a clear sky falls the thunderbolt!

1903 P. G. Wodehouse Tales of St. Austin's 2 To spring an examination on you in the middle of the term out of a blue sky, as it were, was underhand and unsportsmanlike.

1958 G. Greene Our Man in Havana iii. ii. 115 She's had two unhappy coups de foudre herself. They came quite suddenly, out of a clear sky.

2010 P. Murray Skippy Dies 29 You don't introduce sex into the conversation, out of a clear blue sky, and then just banish it.

P4. in the skies: in ecstasy or rapture; engrossed in contemplation or imagination. Cf. in the clouds at cloud n. 9b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > in a state of rapture or ecstasy [phrase]

in the skies1845

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adverb] > in realm of fancy

in the cherubins1542

in the clouds1651

in the skies1845

in or beyond one's wildest dreams1961

1845 S. Breck Disc. Soc. Sons of New Engl. 12 Though living among men, ‘their hearts were in the skies,’—their thoughts enwrapt in holy contemplations.

1869 Argosy Dec. 427 Roland was in the skies at once.

1885 Domest. Monthly Sept. 392/2 His heart was in the skies as he ran across the street.

1924 G. B. Shaw St. Joan Epil. 102 My head was in the skies; and the glory of God was upon me.

2013 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 22 June f4 You want to have feet on the ground but your head in the skies.

P5. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S. regional, esp. southern, south Midland, and western) sky west (also ways, wise) and crooked and variants: in every direction; askew. [The first element probably represents an alteration of skew-ways adv. and adj. at skew adj. and adv. Additions.]

ΚΠ

1873 Republican Banner (Nashville, Tennessee) 23 Apr. 2/2 Colonel Killem..made a third line ‘all advancing together from the north, south east, west’ sky-west and crooked, knowing no north.

1878 New Orleans Daily Democrat 11 June 1/4 We predict enough steam will be generated..to blow the lottery sky west and crooked.

1886 Life & Adventures Roderick Douglas xii. 119 We got ketched in a hurricane; and the old tub began ter go to pieces. We just drifted round skyways and crooked.

1905 A. McAlilly Hilda Lane's Adoptions viii. 88 Old Early's boys slipped up on you fellows..and sent you flying sky west and crooked before you knew what ailed you.

1957 Odessa (Texas) Amer. 30 Jan. 13/2 Before the last roll of the 16-pound ball 1,200,000 pins will be knocked sky-ways and crooked.

2009 Burkburnett (Texas) Informer Star 30 Apr. 4/6 Remembering that Mort's ‘fact-finding’ and recall typically are ‘all sky west and crooked’, I considered interrupting.

P6. colloquial. the sky's the limit: there is no limit; anything is possible.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > without restraint [phrase] > without restriction or limit

without reserve1658

the sky's the limit1908

(with) no holds barred1942

no strings attached1951

1908 Washington Post 16 Feb. m1/4 ‘So you're honing for the boys to bet 'em high?’ ‘Sky's the limit,’ grinned Taggart.

1920 S. Anderson Poor White xvi. 288 Tell 'em Tom Butterworth'll pay what they ask. The sky's the limit to-night, Jim.

1952 W. R. Burnett Vanity Row vii. 68 If there's ever anything we can do for you... Sky's the limit, as people say.

1977 H. Fast Immigrants ii. 97 As far as the Pacific passage is concerned, rates are going up and the sky's the limit.

2008 Exquisite Weddings Autumn 177/2 The sky's the limit... We can make anything happen here.

P7. humorous. the (or that) great —— in the sky.

a. Usually with reference to a person's death: a heaven or paradise represented by a particular thing or place, esp. one well suited to the deceased.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > according to other attributes

horn of salvation (health)c825

fatherOE

Our FatherOE

leecha1200

searcher of (men's) heartsa1382

untempter1382

headstone of the cornerc1400

Valentinec1450

illuminator1485

sun?1521

righteous maker1535

shepherd1535

verity1535

strengthener1567

gracer1592

heart-searcher1618

heartbreaker1642

sustainera1680

philanthropist1730

the invisible1781

praise1782

All-Father1814

wisdom1855

omniscient1856

engracer1866

inbreather1873

God of the gaps1933

the great —— in the sky1968

the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > paradise > Elysium or Elysian field(s) > especially suited to deceased

the great —— in the sky1968

1968 Washington Post 9 Feb. c7/5 The Devil makes a journey to the Great Greenhouse in the Sky, trying to win readmission.

1975 D. Clement & I. La Frenais Porridge: Scripts (2002) 2nd Ser. Episode 5. 210/2 It's time I went to that great cell block in the sky.

1977 C. McKnight & J. Tobler Bob Marley v. 62 Chuck Willis, the ‘Sheik of the Stroll’ became one of the first members of the great rock group in the sky.

1980 D. Bloodworth Trapdoor xvii. 107 There's a Director of Central Intelligence up there in that great Langley in the sky.

2013 Oldie Apr. 76/3 Cookery writer Katie Stewart, who departed for the great kitchen in the sky in January, acquired a devoted following.

b. God, regarded as the type or exponent of a particular profession or art.

ΚΠ

1979 Times 24 Nov. 15/7 It is up to that Great Film Critic in the sky to deal with Life of Brian in His own way.

1985 P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at Palace 19 The ultimate summons from that Great Cop in the Sky!

1996 Big Issue 26 Aug. 19/3 Morris is playing with the great funkmaster in the sky.

2002 UFO Mag. Jan. 34/2 I said a prayer of thanks to that Great Pilot in the Sky to bring us safely through this mission.

单词	the great —— in the sky
释义	> as lemmas the (or that) great —— in the sky Phrases P1. to the skies (also sky): to the highest possible degree; enthusiastically, extravagantly. In later use esp. in to praise to the skies. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > in or to the greatest degree never solOE with (also mid) the mostc1275 for the masteryc1325 to the bestc1390 to the uttermostc1400 at the hardest1429 to the utmostc1450 to the skies (also sky)1559 at float1594 all to nothing1606 to the height1609 to the proofa1625 to the last degree1639 to the welkin?1746 (the) worst kind1839 for all it's worth1864 as —— as they make them?a1880 in the highest1897 to the nth (degree, power)1897 up to eleven1987 1559 Passage Quene Elyzabeth (new ed.) sig. A.iii Blessing tonges, which many a welcome say Which pray thou maist do wel, which praise the to the sky. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. ii. ii. 104 Italians..alwaies extoll their owne things to the skie. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. iii. 191 Those of any Piety or Religion, commended it to the Skyes. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 71 You were extoll'd to the Skies, I assure you. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. viii. 196 The shield of Nestor, bruited to the skies. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 25 Rhymsters who praise 'em to the skies, And meanest actions eulogize. 1845 Brit. Farmer's Mag. Oct. 301 Some farmers cried it up to the skies, while others condemned it as useless. 1881 J. T. Wheeler Hist. India IV. ii. vii. 330 Flatterers applauded it to the skies. 1941 H. I. Priestley in War & Survival 125 The great dictators protest to the skies that all they seek is peace. 1973 P. J. Seybold Revolutionary Educ. in China xiv. 156 At one time they shouted ‘Long live the teachers’.., praising them to the skies. 2013 Church Times 15 Feb. 26/4 There were performances one could praise to the skies. P2. the sky is falling and variants: used to indicate an alarmist, melodramatic, or hysterical sense of impending disaster. Also attributive or as adj. [With allusion to the folk tale of Chicken Little (also Chicken Licken), first recorded in 1823 in Danish by J. M. Thiele, in which a chicken spreads alarm after mistakenly believing that the sky is falling and the world is coming to end. See, e.g., quot. 1851, and compare the following from the earliest recorded English version: 1840 J. G. Chandler Remarkable story Chicken Little 2 Chicken Little..ran under a rose-bush, and a leaf fell on her tail; so she was dreadfully frightened, and ran away to Hen Pen. ‘Oh, Hen Pen,’ said she, ‘the sky is falling!’ ] ΚΠ 1834 St. James's Chron. 22 Nov. They talk of the ‘astounding effect’ produced by the news of the ejection of the Whig-Radical administration; but we can assure them that in our part of the country the sky has not fallen. 1851 Rep. Proc. Exam. C. G. Davis 25 Only some frightened innocents, like the goose, the duck and the turkey in the fable, say the sky is falling, and they must go and tell the king! 1882 F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life III. 383 With the Tories, one has long been familiar with their cries that ‘the sky is falling’. 1918 C. J. Bulliet Robert Mantell's Romance v. 28 No questions were asked. The sky didn't fall. Bobbie had ‘got away with it’. 1931 Timberman Aug. 23/1 When prosperity is booming most of us think the sky is the limit; then when depression comes we go to the other extreme and think the sky is falling. 1967 Redlands (Calif.) Daily Facts 25 Jan. 5/3 The ‘Chicken Little—the sky is falling’ attitude on the part of the scholars, has added to the fires of confusion. 2015 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 29 Dec. (Sports section) b7 When Canada lost its first preliminary game for the first time in five years, there was the usual sky-is-falling concern spreading across the country. P3. out of a clear (blue) sky and variants: without warning, completely unexpectedly. Cf. out of the blue at blue adj. and n. Phrases 5b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [adverb] > without warning on, in, or at unwarec1070 unwarec1100 unwaresa1122 uniwaresa1200 unwarelyc1200 on uniware1297 unwarneda1325 unadvised1390 unbewares1483 unbeware1489 unwarnishedly1513 unawarnistly1533 unadvisedlyc1535 unawares1535 at unwaresa1547 unwarnedly1563 at unawares1564 unwarily1569 at unaware1598 unaware1667 of all things1778 out of a clear (blue) sky1875 out of the blue1879 unawaredly1895 1836 Mississippi Free Trader & Natchez Gaz. 22 July The late veto of President Jackson..was like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky. 1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary v. iii. 264 So from a clear sky falls the thunderbolt! 1903 P. G. Wodehouse Tales of St. Austin's 2 To spring an examination on you in the middle of the term out of a blue sky, as it were, was underhand and unsportsmanlike. 1958 G. Greene Our Man in Havana iii. ii. 115 She's had two unhappy coups de foudre herself. They came quite suddenly, out of a clear sky. 2010 P. Murray Skippy Dies 29 You don't introduce sex into the conversation, out of a clear blue sky, and then just banish it. P4. in the skies: in ecstasy or rapture; engrossed in contemplation or imagination. Cf. in the clouds at cloud n. 9b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > in a state of rapture or ecstasy [phrase] in the skies1845 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adverb] > in realm of fancy in the cherubins1542 in the clouds1651 in the skies1845 in or beyond one's wildest dreams1961 1845 S. Breck Disc. Soc. Sons of New Engl. 12 Though living among men, ‘their hearts were in the skies,’—their thoughts enwrapt in holy contemplations. 1869 Argosy Dec. 427 Roland was in the skies at once. 1885 Domest. Monthly Sept. 392/2 His heart was in the skies as he ran across the street. 1924 G. B. Shaw St. Joan Epil. 102 My head was in the skies; and the glory of God was upon me. 2013 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 22 June f4 You want to have feet on the ground but your head in the skies. P5. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S. regional, esp. southern, south Midland, and western) sky west (also ways, wise) and crooked and variants: in every direction; askew. [The first element probably represents an alteration of skew-ways adv. and adj. at skew adj. and adv. Additions.] ΚΠ 1873 Republican Banner (Nashville, Tennessee) 23 Apr. 2/2 Colonel Killem..made a third line ‘all advancing together from the north, south east, west’ sky-west and crooked, knowing no north. 1878 New Orleans Daily Democrat 11 June 1/4 We predict enough steam will be generated..to blow the lottery sky west and crooked. 1886 Life & Adventures Roderick Douglas xii. 119 We got ketched in a hurricane; and the old tub began ter go to pieces. We just drifted round skyways and crooked. 1905 A. McAlilly Hilda Lane's Adoptions viii. 88 Old Early's boys slipped up on you fellows..and sent you flying sky west and crooked before you knew what ailed you. 1957 Odessa (Texas) Amer. 30 Jan. 13/2 Before the last roll of the 16-pound ball 1,200,000 pins will be knocked sky-ways and crooked. 2009 Burkburnett (Texas) Informer Star 30 Apr. 4/6 Remembering that Mort's ‘fact-finding’ and recall typically are ‘all sky west and crooked’, I considered interrupting. P6. colloquial. the sky's the limit: there is no limit; anything is possible. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > without restraint [phrase] > without restriction or limit without reserve1658 the sky's the limit1908 (with) no holds barred1942 no strings attached1951 1908 Washington Post 16 Feb. m1/4 ‘So you're honing for the boys to bet 'em high?’ ‘Sky's the limit,’ grinned Taggart. 1920 S. Anderson Poor White xvi. 288 Tell 'em Tom Butterworth'll pay what they ask. The sky's the limit to-night, Jim. 1952 W. R. Burnett Vanity Row vii. 68 If there's ever anything we can do for you... Sky's the limit, as people say. 1977 H. Fast Immigrants ii. 97 As far as the Pacific passage is concerned, rates are going up and the sky's the limit. 2008 Exquisite Weddings Autumn 177/2 The sky's the limit... We can make anything happen here. P7. humorous. the (or that) great —— in the sky. a. Usually with reference to a person's death: a heaven or paradise represented by a particular thing or place, esp. one well suited to the deceased. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > according to other attributes horn of salvation (health)c825 fatherOE Our FatherOE leecha1200 searcher of (men's) heartsa1382 untempter1382 headstone of the cornerc1400 Valentinec1450 illuminator1485 sun?1521 righteous maker1535 shepherd1535 verity1535 strengthener1567 gracer1592 heart-searcher1618 heartbreaker1642 sustainera1680 philanthropist1730 the invisible1781 praise1782 All-Father1814 wisdom1855 omniscient1856 engracer1866 inbreather1873 God of the gaps1933 the great —— in the sky1968 the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > paradise > Elysium or Elysian field(s) > especially suited to deceased the great —— in the sky1968 1968 Washington Post 9 Feb. c7/5 The Devil makes a journey to the Great Greenhouse in the Sky, trying to win readmission. 1975 D. Clement & I. La Frenais Porridge: Scripts (2002) 2nd Ser. Episode 5. 210/2 It's time I went to that great cell block in the sky. 1977 C. McKnight & J. Tobler Bob Marley v. 62 Chuck Willis, the ‘Sheik of the Stroll’ became one of the first members of the great rock group in the sky. 1980 D. Bloodworth Trapdoor xvii. 107 There's a Director of Central Intelligence up there in that great Langley in the sky. 2013 Oldie Apr. 76/3 Cookery writer Katie Stewart, who departed for the great kitchen in the sky in January, acquired a devoted following. b. God, regarded as the type or exponent of a particular profession or art. ΚΠ 1979 Times 24 Nov. 15/7 It is up to that Great Film Critic in the sky to deal with Life of Brian in His own way. 1985 P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at Palace 19 The ultimate summons from that Great Cop in the Sky! 1996 Big Issue 26 Aug. 19/3 Morris is playing with the great funkmaster in the sky. 2002 UFO Mag. Jan. 34/2 I said a prayer of thanks to that Great Pilot in the Sky to bring us safely through this mission. extracted from skyn.¹ < as lemmas
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