| 单词 | there's the rub |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthere's (also here lies) the rub c. there's (also here lies) the rub.In subsequent quots. with allusion to quot. 1604. ΚΠ 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 67 To sleepe, perchance to dreame, I there's the rub . View more context for this quotation 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 533. ⁋1 But her Relations are not Intimates with mine. Ah! there's the Rub. 1769 O. Goldsmith in C. Lennox Sister Epil. sig. L2v I will. But how! ay, there's the rub! 1821 W. Scott Pirate III. vii. 167 Here lies the rub... When she hears of you she will be at you. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop vii. 119 ‘To be sure’ said Dick. ‘There's the rub.’ 1887 A. Jessopp Arcady i. 28 Oh, the labour market! there's the rub! 1903 Literary World July 175/2 ‘I'm sure if I had the capital I could do a successful business. But all we who could do things if’—‘Aye! there's the rub,’ interrupted the Essayist. 1965 Rotarian Nov. 29/3 Pigeons and people were crowded together in ever-increasing concentrations, and here lies the rub. 2004 C. Holt More than Seduction 224 But there's the rub, you see. I can't be linked to a scandal. < as lemmas |
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