| 单词 | the devil and all |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe devil and all (a) the devil and all and variants: the whole confounded lot; a huge amount or degree of (esp. something troublesome). Sometimes as a strengthened form of sense 7: the worst thing conceivable; something awful. Also occasionally in positive sense: something excellent, admirable, or impressive. In later use chiefly Irish English. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot every whita1450 every stitch?a1500 the devil and all1543 prow and poop1561 Christ-cross-row1579 every snip1598 thread and thrum1600 boodle1625 hair and hoof1705 rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725 tutti quanti1772 lot1791 lock, stock, and barrel1824 stock and fluke1825 the whole boiling1837 box and dice1839 the whole caboodlea1848 sub-cheese1859 the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859 the whole jingbang1866 the whole hypothec1871 the whole ball of wax1882 the whole (entire) shoot1884 (at) every whip-stitch1888 work1899 issue1919 guntz1958 full monty1979 1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe sig. I Baptysed belles, bedes, organes,..the deuyll and all of soche Idolatrouse beggerye. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. B3 Mas thats true, they say the Lawyers haue the Diuel and all. 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xvi. ciii. 406 Be Lawyers get the Diuell and all. 1689 E. Hickeringill Ceremony-monger Concl. iv. 126 He may get the Devil and all of Money, and a Purse as large as his Conscience. 1703 S. Centlivre Love's Contrivance v. iv. 65 If she cou'd steal a Husband, she'd have stole the Devil and all of Gallants. 1782 R. B. Sheridan Let. 2 July (1966) I. 152 I have no other possible way of satisfying Pacchierotti, and it will be the Devil and all to detain him. 1811 Earl Gower 18 Dec. in C. K. Sharpe Corr. (1888) I. 508 I begin to fear that the rheumatism has taken possession of your right arm..which would be the devil and all, as the vulgar would say. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xx. 14 I needn't take this devil-and-all of trouble to explain matters to you. 1839 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 669/1 I was thryin' and sthrivin all I could—whoo! divil an' all, ye see—to complate washin' the big brash knocker afore confission. 1888 R. Kipling Soldiers Three 87 We shtart the divil an' all av a shine—laughin' an' crackin' on an' t'rowin' our boots about. 1931 T. Smith Turnabout (2012) iii. 43 Really, it's the the devil and all to be modern—too much of a strain. 1950 ‘F. O'Brien’ in Irish Times 14 June 4/5 The squad cars..have gigantic aerials, wireless valves, the divilanall machinery inside the bonnet to apprehend criminals. 1979 F. Kelly Ann. Ballykilferret 41 ‘Young fellas has the divil an' all of a time nowadays,’ he thought as he straightened up from his back-breaking labours. 2001 A. O'Toole in M. Hickey Irish Days (2004) 264 The principal..beat me and..[my father] was going to go in to the teacher and he was going to do the devil and all. < as lemmas |
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