| 单词 | there is matter in it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthere is matter in it ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [phrase] there is matter in it1549 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be unimportant [verb (transitive)] > make less important or unimportant to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee1303 mincea1591 to make no matter of1604 triflea1616 to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)1632 pygmy1658 insignificate1676 minify1676 smooth1684 trivialize1846 nonentitize1903 minoritize1947 sideline1953 peripheralize1955 marginalize1970 marginate1970 deprioritize1973 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (transitive)] > attach importance to > make more important arearc885 upheavea1300 upraisea1300 uphigh13.. enhancec1325 liftc1330 uplift1338 uphebbe1340 uptakec1340 magnifya1382 upreara1382 uphancec1390 preponder?1504 upbring1513 exaggerate1564 greaten1589 weighc1595 to make much matter ofa1649 aggravate1698 aggrandize1709 beef1941 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 4th Serm. sig. Lii If Solomon sayed it, there is a matter in it. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. sig. b1v If necessitie shall force a man to saie some what, he may make an outward bragge, as though there wer no matter in it. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. iii. sig. D3v First, for your Marchants, or Citty face; Tis thus: a dull plodding face;..There is no great matter in this face. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. x. 103 Having..shewed, that the burning Zone is much subiect vnto raine, it appears that there is matter in it, to temper the violence of the heat. ?a1610 A. Montgomerie Poems (1887) 129 For men of merit sho [sc. Fortune] no mater maks. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iv. 137 There's matter in't indeed, if he be angry. View more context for this quotation a1649 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1853) I. 175 Much matter was made of this. 1678 T. D'Urfey Fool turn'd Critick ii. ii. 15 Ah Sir, there's some matter in this now, an ill bred Raskal, not sing the Battle of Mardike. 1734 T. Cooke tr. Terence Stepmother iii. i, in tr. Terence Comedys I. 312 Pam. Something extraordinary..must have happen'd, to set them at Variance and so long. Par. By Hercules, there's no great Matter in't, if you'll but make a right Use of your Reason. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. v. xii. 317 Are you sure he never cut, Mr. Nash? If the Gentleman never cut, why certainly there is no such great matter in it. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. iii. 45 I shall know the whole story one day, I suppose; and perhaps..I shall not find there is any mighty matter in it after all. 1839 J. S. Knowles Love iii. iii 60 No; let him speak; there's matter in his looks. < as lemmas |
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