| 单词 | that's the ticket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthat's the ticket a. The correct thing; what is wanted, expected, or fashionable; esp. in that's the ticket.Perhaps from 8; or, as some have suggested, from the winning ticket in a lottery. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion gentryc1400 the fashion1569 mainstream1599 the trim1603 mood1646 mode1649 vogue1649 beauty1653 à la mode1654 turn1695 the kick1699 goût1717 thing1734 taste1739 ton1769 nick1788 the tippy1790 twig1811 latest1814 dernier mot1834 ticket1838 kibosh1880 last cry1887 le (or the) dernier cri1896 flavour of the month (or week)1946 vague1962 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > that which is suitable or appropriate the very thing1768 ticket1838 to be a person's meat1875 glove-fit1910 1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. xxi. 323 They ought to be hanged, sir, (that's the ticket, and he'd whop the leader). 1843 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 117 I fancy that moderately high hills (like these) are the ticket. 1847 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 179 This [idealizing of portraits] is all wrong. Truth is the ticket. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. vii. 66 Somehow she's not—she's not the ticket. 1866 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 411 That's the ticket! That's the winning game. < as lemmas |
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