| 单词 | that is all there is to it | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasthat is all there is to it  c.  In colloquial phrases with there is and a quantitative or pronominal expression: belonging as a quality, attribute, or capacity to (someone or something, frequently it);  that is all there is to it: it is that and nothing more; there's nothing to it: see nothing pron., n., adv., and int. Phrases 7c. Originally U.S. ΚΠ 1880    ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad ii. 36  				There's more to a blue-jay than any other creature. 1883    ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xlv. 459  				The steamboat shoved out up the creek. That was all there was ‘to it’. 1886    E. L. Dorsey Midshipman Bob II. xii. 230  				There's just this to it: if you'll go to any place [etc.]. 1898    R. Kipling Day's Work 93  				‘That's all there is to it,’ seethed the white water roaring through the scuppers. 1903    A. H. Lewis Boss 14  				Tell me what there is to this shindy. 1914    ‘V. Castle’ Mod. Dancing 44  				Simply walk as softly and smoothly as possible... This is the One Step, and this is all there is to it. 1936    L. C. Douglas White Banners xvi. 343  				He's a wonderful person, you know. There's a lot to him that doesn't show up on the surface. 1974    J. Thomson Long Revenge iii. 40  				He had the feeling that there was a great deal more to it [sc. a case] than he had so far discovered. 1976    New Yorker 26 Apr. 38/1  				I thought she had a lot to her, a lot to offer. < as lemmas  | 
	
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