| 单词 | to be a fool to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be a fool to b. to be a fool to: to be inferior to in every way; to be nothing when compared to. Now rare. ΚΠ 1615 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Cupids Revenge iii. sig. G4 The Diuell is but a Foole to a right woman. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. iii. 30 Tut, she's a Lambe, a Doue, a foole to him. View more context for this quotation 1700 E. Ward Step to Bath 12 The Road was so Damnable heavy, that..the Corporation Trot to St. Pauls on Sunday, was a Fool to it. 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship xvii. 76 Childers would have been a fool to him. 1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines 79 The Black Hole of Calcutta must have been a fool to it. 1957 R. Graves They hanged my Saintly Billy iii. 22 Bless you, Sir, compared with Rugeley, Nottinghamshire's a fool to it. 1985 P. Beale & E. Partridge Dict. Catch Phrases (ed. 2) 34/2 Blackpool's a fool to it, ‘spoken of any bright lights or any garish sight’ (Mr Jack Eva, 1978); since the 1920s. < as lemmas |
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