英语词汇“to a tee”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. to a T (also to a tee): exactly, properly, to a nicety. [The original sense of T here has not been ascertained. Suggestions that it was the tee at Curling, or at Golf, or a T square, appear on investigation to be untenable; it has also been suggested that it referred to the proper completion of a t by crossing it (see 1b); or that it was the initial of a word; in reference to this it is notable that to a tittle (i.e. to a prick, dot, jot) was in use nearly a century before ‘to a T’, and in exactly the same constructions: see tittle n.]

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb] > strictly

strait1338

smally1340

at point devicec1390

point-devicec1425

precisely1526

to the point device1542

just1549

rigorously1561

by the square1570

curiously1573

by point device1575

in print1576

to a tittle1597

nicelya1616

to a hair's breadtha1616

point-vice1641

to a nicka1680

to a cow's thumb1681

to a tee1693

narrowly1708

scrupulously1712

to a dot1728

perjinkly1775

to a nicety1795

astringently1866

to a fit1890

1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 102 All the under Villages and Towns-men come to him for Redress; which he does to a T.

1700 Labour in Vain viii, in Harl. Misc. (1810) X. 473 Harry cajoled my inquirer, and fitted his humour to a t——.

1771 J. Giles Misc. Poems 155 I'll tell you where You may be suited to a tee.

1815 Zeluca I. 385 I knew my man to a T.

1828 Marly: Planter's Life in Jamaica 161 I understand the practice to a tee.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxii. 66 The yards were squared ‘to a T’ by lifts and braces.

1856 H. B. Stowe Dred ii All these old-fashioned goings on would suit you to a T.

1873 K. H. Digby Last Year's Leaves viii. 302 Then should you scorn such feasts, like me, We've what will suit you to a tee.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 56 Simon Dedalus takes him off to a tee with his eyes screwed up.

1966 Listener 29 Sept. 480/1 John Hollis had Walter off to a tee.

1973 Brit. Printer May 62/3 Edwin Snell of Yeovil has the direct mail touch to a tee.

单词	to a tee
释义	> as lemmas to a tee c. to a T (also to a tee): exactly, properly, to a nicety. [The original sense of T here has not been ascertained. Suggestions that it was the tee at Curling, or at Golf, or a T square, appear on investigation to be untenable; it has also been suggested that it referred to the proper completion of a t by crossing it (see 1b); or that it was the initial of a word; in reference to this it is notable that to a tittle (i.e. to a prick, dot, jot) was in use nearly a century before ‘to a T’, and in exactly the same constructions: see tittle n.] ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb] > strictly strait1338 smally1340 at point devicec1390 point-devicec1425 precisely1526 to the point device1542 just1549 rigorously1561 by the square1570 curiously1573 by point device1575 in print1576 to a tittle1597 nicelya1616 to a hair's breadtha1616 point-vice1641 to a nicka1680 to a cow's thumb1681 to a tee1693 narrowly1708 scrupulously1712 to a dot1728 perjinkly1775 to a nicety1795 astringently1866 to a fit1890 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 102 All the under Villages and Towns-men come to him for Redress; which he does to a T. 1700 Labour in Vain viii, in Harl. Misc. (1810) X. 473 Harry cajoled my inquirer, and fitted his humour to a t——. 1771 J. Giles Misc. Poems 155 I'll tell you where You may be suited to a tee. 1815 Zeluca I. 385 I knew my man to a T. 1828 Marly: Planter's Life in Jamaica 161 I understand the practice to a tee. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxii. 66 The yards were squared ‘to a T’ by lifts and braces. 1856 H. B. Stowe Dred ii All these old-fashioned goings on would suit you to a T. 1873 K. H. Digby Last Year's Leaves viii. 302 Then should you scorn such feasts, like me, We've what will suit you to a tee. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 56 Simon Dedalus takes him off to a tee with his eyes screwed up. 1966 Listener 29 Sept. 480/1 John Hollis had Walter off to a tee. 1973 Brit. Printer May 62/3 Edwin Snell of Yeovil has the direct mail touch to a tee. extracted from Tn. < as lemmas
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