| 单词 | both first and last |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboth first and last a. †both first and last: at all times, from start to finish (obsolete). first and last: taking one thing with another, at one time and another, reckoned altogether, in all. first or last: at one time or another, sooner or later (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > that is all or the whole [phrase] > in all or altogether by numbera1375 in numbera1375 in allc1380 first and lastc1390 all wholea1393 in companya1393 in sum1399 full and whole1402 in great1421 whole and somec1425 in (the) whole1432 one with another1436 in (the) hale1437 all in great1533 up and down1562 one and other1569 in (the) aggregate1644 all told1814 the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > at some future time or one day yeteOE hereafter1154 hereafterwardc1386 sometimec1386 oncea1393 whiloma1400 rather or latera1450 one of these daysa1470 one day1477 umquhile1489 in timea1500 with time?1531 sooner or later1577 odd shortly1681 some summer's day1697 first or last1700 some of these (‥) days1831 someday1898 down the road (also track)1924 the world > time > particular time > [adverb] > at some time somewhilea1240 somewhilec1250 somewhen1297 sometime1600 first and last1719 one of these fine days1762 some fine day1762 somewhere along the line1962 c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) 717 Þis gode comunes..Meyntened þe werre boþ furst & last. c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) vi. 66 Of her wombe, the cloyster virgynall Was euere liche, bothe firste and laste Closed and shette as castell principall. a1500 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 205 Aqueyntanse of lordschip wyll y noght, For furste or laste dere hit woll be bowght. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. clxxxxvv For it hath be sene is sene, and euer shall That first or last foule pryde wyll haue a fall. 1678 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 45 Lord Shrewsbery is like to marry Mr. Chiffens his daughter who will be first and last made worth 40,000l. to him. 1687 tr. J. B. Bossuet Conf. with Mr. Claude 21 The Decision wholly appertain'd to GODs Word alone, which the Church in her Assemblies both first and last did but shew and point to. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. i. 2 The Bay of Campeachy, where I lived first and last about 3 Years. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 38 And all are Fools and Lovers, first or last. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 64 I brought away all the Sails first and last. 1800 H. L. Piozzi Jrnl. 2 May in E. M. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) xiii. 315 I brought their Papa more than £20,000 first and last, as the Phrase is. 1823 London Mag. Feb. 183 Truth is immutable, as the schools say; so 'tis all one, first or last. 1853 T. De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches in Select. Grave & Gay I. 2 First and last, we counted as eight children..though never counting more than six living at once. 1941 W. Lewis Vulgar Streak i. iv. 33 Westminster and New College Oxford. The jack that's been spent on you first and last, to make you what you are! 2010 Farmer's Weekly 26 Mar. 3/3 The management teams of farmer-owned businesses must never again lose sight of the fact that they are owned by and accountable to farmers first and last. < as lemmas |
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