英语词汇“the whole megillah”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. slang. [With allusion to the length of the Megillah.] A long, tedious, or complicated story; frequently in a whole Megillah [after Yiddish a gantse megile] . Also the whole Megillah: the whole business, the whole thing. Frequently without capital initial.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > prolixity > prolix passage > rigmarole

Ragman?1507

rat-rane1513

rat-rhyme1553

reavel-ravel1568

paternoster1651

kyrielle1653

rat1671

rigmarolec1736

nominy?1746

Megillah1911

1911 M. Glass Abe & Mawruss iii. 111 I've been listening to all this here Megillah and I ain't said a word nor nothing.

1943 D. O. Selznick Memo 10 July in R. Behlmer Memo from D. O. Selznick (1972) 334 Sydney Guilaroff..was in wrong with the union because of an elaborate megillah.

1950 Record-Argus (Greenville, Pa.) 27 June 7/2 Bing Crosby and Dixie are currently talking it over. Friends hope they'll decide to forget the whole magillah.

1957 L. M. Feinsilver in Chicago Jewish Forum Summer 228/1 A gantse Megillah or ‘a whole Megillah’ has been thrown around by a number of TV personalities..presumably with little idea of the origin of the phrase.

1968 Punch 1 May 626/1 Feeding all the megillah to the papers about his family of Irish Polacks who came over with the Pilgrim Fathers.

1970 S. Sheldon Naked Face (1971) x. 110 ‘Do you know the most peculiar thing about this whole megillah?’ queried Moody thoughtfully.

1991 J. Menick Lingo i. 14 Some day I'm going to be one of the people in charge of the whole magilla.

单词	the whole megillah
释义	> as lemmas the whole Megillah 2. slang. [With allusion to the length of the Megillah.] A long, tedious, or complicated story; frequently in a whole Megillah [after Yiddish a gantse megile] . Also the whole Megillah: the whole business, the whole thing. Frequently without capital initial. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > prolixity > prolix passage > rigmarole Ragman?1507 rat-rane1513 rat-rhyme1553 reavel-ravel1568 paternoster1651 kyrielle1653 rat1671 rigmarolec1736 nominy?1746 Megillah1911 1911 M. Glass Abe & Mawruss iii. 111 I've been listening to all this here Megillah and I ain't said a word nor nothing. 1943 D. O. Selznick Memo 10 July in R. Behlmer Memo from D. O. Selznick (1972) 334 Sydney Guilaroff..was in wrong with the union because of an elaborate megillah. 1950 Record-Argus (Greenville, Pa.) 27 June 7/2 Bing Crosby and Dixie are currently talking it over. Friends hope they'll decide to forget the whole magillah. 1957 L. M. Feinsilver in Chicago Jewish Forum Summer 228/1 A gantse Megillah or ‘a whole Megillah’ has been thrown around by a number of TV personalities..presumably with little idea of the origin of the phrase. 1968 Punch 1 May 626/1 Feeding all the megillah to the papers about his family of Irish Polacks who came over with the Pilgrim Fathers. 1970 S. Sheldon Naked Face (1971) x. 110 ‘Do you know the most peculiar thing about this whole megillah?’ queried Moody thoughtfully. 1991 J. Menick Lingo i. 14 Some day I'm going to be one of the people in charge of the whole magilla. extracted from Megillahn. < as lemmas
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