单词 | though i say it that should not |
释义 | > as lemmasthough I say it that should not P4. In proverbial phrases used parenthetically to excuse an apparently boastful comment, as though I say it that should not, though I say it myself, etc. ΚΠ c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 835 Al so ich segge bi mi solue, Betere is min on þan þine twelue. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvii. l. 17 For þough I seye it my-self I haue saued with þis charme Of men & of wommen many score þousandes. ?c1500 Killing of Children (Digby) l. 139 Though I sey it my-self I am a man of myght. 1599 George a Greene sig. C1 Though I say it that should not say it. 1606 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. If you know not Me (1609) C 3 Shall a yong man as I am, and though I say it, indifferent proper, goe [etc.]. 1663 W. Clark Marciano i. v. 7 I protest, Mistress, you are very handsome, though I say it that should not say it. 1736 T. Sheridan in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 181 I have written a little pretty birth-day poem against St. Andrew's day... It is a very pretty thing (although I say it that shouldn't say it). 1746 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 26 Feb. (1775) I. lxxvi. 227 A book that I published not quite fourteen years ago: it is a small quarto; and, though I say it myself, there is something good in it. 1818 Blackwood's Mag. 2 214/2 My adversary might find it, however, (though I say it that shouldn't say it) in the vulgar phrase, rather a tough job. 1842 C. Dickens Let. 1 May (1974) III. 229 I do believe, though I say it as shouldn't, that they [sc. Dickens's children] are good 'uns. 1892 C. M. Yonge Cross Roads i. 13 Ours is reckoned one of the best choirs..though I say it as should not say it. 1911 Watson's Mag. Nov. 990/2 You've had yer board and keep, an' it's not many men that's the pervider that I am, ef I do say it that shouldn't. 1991 A. Bennett Forty Years On & Other Plays (new ed.) Introd. 19 If only in a spirit of ‘I told you so’, I noted in the course of the eighties various news items.., which bore out the central thesis of the play and proved it to have been, though I say so myself, prophetic. 1996 T. Parker Violence of our Lives v. 185 I suppose though I say it myself I must have been a quick learner. 2008 C. Dunn Black Ship ix. 108 A finer body of men I couldn't wish for, though I say it as shouldn't. though I say it that should not a. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a fact: Notwithstanding that; in spite of the fact that, although. (Formerly with verb in subjunctive, where the indicative is now used.) Proverbial phrase though I say it that should not and variants: see say v.1 3a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > subject to correction though I say it that should notc888 under correctionc1374 under (also saving) reformation1553 with (great) submission1597 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > although thoughc888 whethera1400 however1591 howsoever1599 howsomevera1616 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > on condition that [conjunction] > although thoughc888 thoughc1050 allc1225 when1297 how so?c1330 althougha1350 ifa1400 if alla1400 though all?a1400 andc1400 suppose1400 albeit?a1425 albec1450 wella1470 even though1697 c888 [see α. forms]. 971 Blickl. Hom. 21 [He] bið þonne undeaþlic, þeah he ær deaþlic wære. c11751 [see α. forms]. 12.. Moral Ode 356 Ne mai non vuel..beon inne godes riche ðeh þer beð wunienges fele. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 10 Ich was a-ferd of hire face þauh heo feir weore [B. þeiȝ she faire were]. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 69 Ladies laȝed ful loude, þoȝ þay lost haden. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 233 For-þy þaȝ þe rape were rank, þe rawþe watz lyttel. c1440 York Myst. xxx. 45 My-selffe yof I saye itt. c1440 York Myst. xlviii. 344 Helpe ne holde, Hadde I none of you, þof I quaked. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 590 The duke..Treittit him weill thocht he was far fra hame. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 130 Though thou canst swim like a Ducke, thou art made like a Goose. View more context for this quotation 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman ii. 46 They are no kings, though they possess the Crown. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace Art of Poetry 414 The hone Gives edge to razors, though itself has none. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. vi. 34 The French,..are very civil, tho' I don't understand their lingo. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xv. 175 A gentle hand—rough-grained and hard though it was. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. xi. 647 Though they rallied, the effort cost them dear. < as lemmas |
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