| 单词 | that's all she wrote |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(and) that's all she wrote c. colloquial (originally and chiefly North American). (and) that's all she wrote and variants: expressing finality or closure; ‘that's it.’ [Probably originally in reference to the notion of a woman writing a letter to inform her husband or lover that their relationship was over; the phrase was likely popularized by its use in various songs of the 1940s (apparently earliest in Ernest Tubb's 1942 song That's all she Wrote).] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > completed or finished [phrase] over with1822 (and) that's all she wrote1935 1935 Brownsville (Texas) Herald 16 June 1/1 The assessor-collectors do not have the power, the commissioners' courts do not have the power. That's all she wrote and it's final, the attorney general says in language much more eloquent and technical. 1966 R. Guy Bird at my Window i. 14 All that rot-gut whiskey, mixes up with a lot of shit and then some stud comes around blowing gage, man, and that's all she wrote. 1993 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 16 Aug. That was all she wrote for the three-time British Open champion when he missed his birdie put. 2005 R. Hoban Come dance with Me xix. 112 Either of them makes a mistake and Whammo! that's all she wrote. < as lemmas |
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