| 单词 | to cut ice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut ice (with someone) P5. colloquial (originally U.S.). to cut ice (with someone) and variants: to carry weight, have an influence or effect (upon); to impress. Chiefly in negative or other non-assertive contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > operation upon something > have effect on [verb (transitive)] rineOE takec1300 concern1446 redound1460 work1487 touch1491 solicit1601 salutea1616 enact1616 affect1630 reach1637 attinge1640 act1655 influence1661 irradiate1668 vibrate1845 involve1847 inwork1855 to cut ice (with someone)1894 dent1931 impact1935 to make (also put) a dent in1942 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > be affected by impression [verb (intransitive)] > have effect to pierce one's stomach1509 reverberate1608 impose1625 bite1638 to strike home1694 to cut ice (with someone)1894 register1913 project1933 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] to stand for something (or nothing)OE frustrate1471 unavail1866 to cut ice1894 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail to [verb (transitive)] > have no effect upon to be lost on or upona1616 to cut ice1894 1894 J. A. Frye Fables Field & Staff 176 ‘Huh! w'at youse say cuts no ice wid me!’ says I, scornful. ‘It's clean nutty dat youse are.’ 1896 Amer. Stationer 7 May 794/1 If special features and big crowds ‘cut any ice’, some should be cut this month, for the spring races begin on May 6 and will last two weeks. 1904 Albany (N.Y.) Weekly Times 30 June 4 The czar is to send an ice-breaking boat to the Far East, realizing apparently that his forces haven't been cutting much ice over that way. 1917 A. Conan Doyle His Last Bow 291 It cuts no ice with a British copper to tell him you're an American citizen. 1924 A. Huxley Let. 28 Oct. (1969) 235 I was very glad..to hear that you liked Those Barren Leaves. It cuts more ice, I think, than the others and is more explicit and to the point. 1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart i. 7 Oh, sit down, man, sit down. Youre in your own house: ceremony cuts no ice with me. 1955 Times 12 May 14/5 Burns..ended a bitter argument by declaring: ‘That cuts no ice with me. I want the referee to hold the money.’ 1983 T. Heald Networks iii. 52 It cuts more ice to say that you were at Eton than at Shrewsbury. 1983 P. Dallas Ital. Wines (new ed.) ii. 30 This, fortunately, cuts little ice with the Italians. 1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. iv. 7/2 However, only time will tell whether a personal plea from Major will cut much ice. 1996 A. Templeton Past praying For (1997) xv. 292 They had evidence that Hayley had quarrelled with McEvoy last night, and Hayley's airy explanation that it was just a little misunderstanding between friends hadn't cut any ice. < as lemmas |
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