| 单词 | to do job |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do (a person's) job Phrases P1. job of work: a piece of work; a task; a position of employment.With early uses cf. note at sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > [noun] > an undertaking > thing(s) to be done > a (difficult) task workOE piece of work1533 job of work1557 tesh1596 task1597 stunt1880 aufgabe1902 dreich1984 1557-8Iobbes of woorke [see sense 1a]. 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum xx. 367 As if they haue a iob of worke of their weeks taske to doe, they will dispatch it vpon the Lords day. 1664 T. Killigrew Pilgrim ii. iv, in Comedies & Trag. 170 Now for a minute, I have a jobbe of work here, a minute would do it. 1746 ‘Devoniensis’ Let. in Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 406/1 Chuer, a chare, a jobb of work. 1770 Constantia xxviii. 112 I am likely to have another fine Job of Work on my Hands. 1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds I. xix. 252 Arthur did not go on the search, because he had a job of work to do. 1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds III. lxxii. 251 The barrister who will have the cross-examining of her..will have a job of work on his hand. 1878 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Ups & Downs xxv. 295 I ain't like you, Towney, able to coast about without a job of work from shearin' to shearin'. 1928 M. Walsh While Rivers Run xx. 279 ‘A sound job of work!’ boasted Alistair. ‘We have arriven.’ 1931 ‘P. Williams’ Word of To-morrow iv. xvi. 263 Tramps..who wouldn't do an honest job of work not if it was offered them. 1990 J. M. Coetzee Age of Iron i. 7 Do you want a job of work?.. There are plenty of jobs I can give you. P2. colloquial. to do (a person's) job (also to do the job for (a person)). a. To do what is required by (a person), to suffice for. Also simply to do the job: to suffice; to be adequate or satisfactory. ΚΠ 1682 Congratulatory Poem on Whigg's Entertainm. (single sheet) If they have nor Coat nor Gown to sell, Godfrey's Cravat will do the Job as well. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 312 Had they thought fit to have gone to sleep there..they had done the Jobb for us. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. xiii. 189 A variety of ideas afford us no notion of succession unless we perceive one come before the other; nor can it be imagined that their degrees of vividness or faintness will do the job. 1829 W. M. Thackeray Let. ?18 July (1945) I. 85 I am going to take a months dancing... I think 15 lessons will do my job. 1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene III. vi. 79 At last a shot fired by the gunner did the job; it struck her foremast, which shortly afterwards went by the board. 1934 L. Steffens Let. 17 Jan. (1938) II. 974 My orders are, when up, to go out in the air and sunshine, but no change of air will do my job. 1948 J. T. Flynn Roosevelt Myth ii. ix. 219 This, with the payroll vote and the big city machines in those states was enough to do the job. 1992 H. Mitchell One Man's Garden v. 102 No spray has ever done the job for me. b. To bring to a state of harm; to ruin, ‘do for’; (also) to kill, destroy (also in extended use). Now rare. ΚΠ 1690 T. D'Urfey New Poems 205 But they would finish what they had begun, So between Turk and Iew my Jobb was done. 1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. xli. 165 He..cut the Sausage in twain... The Sausage's Job being done, [etc.]. 1763 Beauties of all Mag. Sel. II. 3/2 Is it not a phrase in common to say, I'll do his jobb,—which signifies doing him a piece of mischief secretly. 1858 R. D. Bulwer-Lytton World & his Wife I. vii. 234 That Newmarket October Meeting, the last as poor Netherby rode at, just afore Jennings did the job for him. 1860 T. C. Haliburton Season-ticket xi. 331 The cleaver that was hanging right over him, suspended only by a string, and just ready to do the job for him. 1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) I. 441/1 Job for him, do a man's, to ruin; knock out; kill. P3. by the job: on the basis of payment for individual pieces of work, rather than of continuous employment; also in extended use, frequently depreciatively implying reduced quality or a lack of commitment. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [phrase] > piecemeal > a small piece of work at a time by the job1733 on the job1834 1733 G. Berkeley Let. to Tom Prior 1 May in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. Berkeley (1871) 207 I do not design to hire one [gardener]..but only employ him by the job. 1792 ‘P. Pindar’ Tears of St. Margaret (new ed.) 35 I thank my stars, I am not like the mob, Whom Nature fabricated by the job. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. iv. 97 Creatures—things—made of bad material, put badly together; built by the job. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xviii. 351 The teacher said he was paid by the job. 1926 M. R. Dobie tr. G. Glotz Anc. Greece at Work iv. 31 The conditions of engagement varied at the will of the parties. Certain work was done by the job. 1996 J. Morgan Debrett's New Guide Etiquette & Mod. Manners 298 Cleaning agencies..who take on contract cleaning which is also charged on an hourly basis or by the job. P4. a. to make a job of and variants: to carry out or manage successfully; to undertake in a serious or professional manner. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] shift?1533 to pass muster1573 to give a good account of (something, often oneself)1601 to hit off1700 to make a job of1736 to make a do of1834 to make a go of it1836 cut1900 1736 W. Arnall Complaint Children of Israel (ed. 2) 38 We think ourselves as well qualified to govern Corporations, to sit in that grave Assembly the City Common-Council, and to make a Jobb of My Lord Mayor's House as the most religious elder of Salters Hall. 1817 M. Edgeworth Ormond I. xvi. 362 Cousin Ulick would make a job of a bishop, but I would not. a1829 J. Everett Entire Santification (1831) 6 The Lord's a wonderful teicher,—wen he undertaks onny thing he can sooin mak a job on't. 1855 J. L. Motley Let. 3 Mar. in Corr. (1889) I. vi. 172 I should not like him to read it till he can do it all at once, and make a job of it. 1955 ‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren (1956) 20 He had made a job of it all right; I could visualise the production line..when this place was going full blast. 2001 K. Barry in M. Hickey Irish Days (2004) 39 She handed over the bar to me. I said to Mother.., ‘We'll make a job of this, now.’ Which we did do... We had a big cellar, all shelved, and I used to bottle ahead of myself to get the beer into condition. b. to make a good (also bad, etc.) job of: (with modifying adjective) to undertake or carry out with the specified result or level of success. See also to make a clean job (of it) at clean adj. 3g. ΚΠ ?1745 Dr. Fitzpatrick Direct. to Mankind 63 Where a Felony can be compounded, with a round Allowance to you, and without Scandal or Risque, the Justice to yourself is to make a good Job of it. 1790 C. Lennox Euphemia 215 I fancy this fine man..will make a fine job of this. 1846 C. Rowcroft Fanny, Little Milliner 307 It should be right through the head—that settles at once, and makes a clean job of it. 1893 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Sun 23 Dec. That girl just gone by has made a bad job of her life, a bad mess of it. 1971 R. Rendell One Across v. 48 She's made a nice job of my hair, hasn't she? I wouldn't want Ethel to think I'd let myself go. 2005 Computer Buyer May 66/2 Consider cheaper, more conventional scanners that make a better job of the basics. P5. to give something up as a bad job and variants: to abandon an undertaking, etc., because it is going very badly; to decide that it is futile to expend further effort on something. ΚΠ 1801 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. May 57 Tompion gave it up for a bad job, and this might be one reason why it was so late before it was completed at the hands of Graham. 1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales I. xix. 210 The minister of the parish..had frequently entered into argument with him, but quite unsuccessfully and had at last given up the matter, as a bad job. 1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons lxix He had given up religion as a bad job. 1887 G. H. Devol Forty Years Gambler on Mississippi 267 For ten or fifteen years during my early life, the sporting men of the South tried to find a man to whip me, but they couldn't do it, and finally gave it up as a bad job. 1944 R. Lehmann Ballad & Source 55 My riding lessons had been given up as a bad job. 1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) viii. 239 For a few years a Portuguese garrison mouldered unprovisioned up on its redoubt, until Suqutra was given up as a bad job. P6. to make the best of a bad job: to do the best one can in unfortunate or difficult circumstances. Cf. sense 5. ΚΠ 1821 ‘Christophilus’ Vindiciae Britannicae iv. 76 You cannot be the dupe of a craft, which after failing to strangle an infant in its birth, merely adopts it, ‘to make the best of a bad job’. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 95 Accustomed to take things as they came, and to make the best of a bad job. 1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge II. xxvii. 281 She would make the best of a bad job. 1923 Spectator 9 June 972/2 The novel ends, therefore, with Derek making the best of a bad job. 1950 T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party ii. 111 Edward: Lavinia, we must make the best of a bad job. That is what he means. Reilly:..The best of a bad job is all any of us make of it. 2000 Saga Mag. Feb. 85/1 No effort was spared to make the best of a bad job..and after its unfortunate prelude, the rest of the visit went swimmingly. P7. the devil's (own) job: an extremely difficult task. Cf. sense 4c. ΚΠ 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 419/2 The devil's own job it was ere we got rid of 'em. 1885 T. Bracken Killin' V.P. in Paddy Murphy's Ann. 60 It's the divil's own job to widstand the bewildhermints av a purty young woman. 1907 J. M. Synge Tinker's Wedding i. 1 It's the divil's job making a ring. 1922 F. H. Burnett Robin xviii. 154 ‘You propose to suggest that she shall marry you?’.. ‘Yes. It will be the devil's own job..she has abhorred me all her life.’ 1999 A. Mallinson Close Run Thing vi. 119 Dan, at every river in Spain it was the same—the Devil's own job just to keep powder and fire-locks dry. P8. on the job. a. = by the job at Phrases 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [phrase] > piecemeal > a small piece of work at a time by the job1733 on the job1834 1834 Times 15 Feb. 8/2 A respectable steady active man who can drive a horse and chaise, and knows town well. Would engage on the job with a family or gentleman going to town. 1870 Times 10 Aug. 3/3 A lady wishes to recommend an Italian man-servant... Will take a place permanently or on the job. 1901 To-Day 22 Aug. 115/1 ‘This cook..is very good.’ ‘She is, but she is only here on the job.’ b. Hard at work, busy; (also colloquial) engaged in sexual intercourse. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupied or busy [phrase] at work?1440 at it1609 in (full) play1669 on the run1795 on the trot1822 on the hop1863 on the job1882 for (or on) the (high) jump1884 as busy as a nailer1899 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [adjective] > having sexual intercourse wapping1612 engendering1620 shagging1772 on the job1922 rogering1953 1882 W. Burnot Old Mother Goose iii. 12 He will have to hide his nob. Come along, we're on the job. 1890 D. Lloyd George Let. 7 Aug. (1973) 32 I am on the job Saturday or Monday. 1891 Licensed Victuallers' Gaz. 23 Jan. in J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang (1896) IV. 62/1 There was a long wrangle over the choice of referee, for no one cared to occupy that thankless post when the Lambs were on the job. 1892 E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 3 'Arry is fair on the job. 1914 G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. iv. 22 She was ‘on the job’ every minute until the cottage was ‘on wheels’. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 449 Mother Slipperslapper. (Familiarly.) She's on the job herself tonight with the vet. 1937 Burlington Mag. June p. xxvi/1 The slippery pickpocket is depicted ‘on the job’. 1972 Daily Tel. 16 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 94/3 ‘Why the hell did you play Eric Clapton's Easy Now?..Didn't you realise it was all about some guy on the job?’ And I said, ‘Yeah. How many songs aren't?’ 2003 National Post (Canada) 29 Mar. to 1 (caption) Director Michael DeCarlo on the job, looking scowly and serious. c. Horse Racing. Of a racehorse: trying to win, rather than running for exercise or practice. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [adjective] > racing qualities of horse maiden1760 lasting1809 on the joba1889 pacemaking1937 raceable1944 a1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang (1889) I. 502/1 Trainers and jockeys..very easily gathered whether a particular horse..was ‘out for an airing’ or was on the job. 1909 Post & Paddock 22 Nov. 1/3 Their denunciations of horses ‘not trying’, being ‘out for an airing’, or ‘not on the job’ on every occasion when their speculations go wrong. 1922 Notes & Queries 9 Sept. 206/2 To be ‘on the job’ is for a horse to be ‘busy’, to be ‘out’, i.e., backed and trying. 2007 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 11 Sept. 84 Attractive prize money will see more competative [sic] racing and keen battles to the line and less horses being pulled up or ‘not on the job’. d. attributive (chiefly with hyphens). Carried out or occurring while at work. Frequently in on-the-job training. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > [adjective] > working > done or occurring while on the job1938 1938 B. Lindley & E. K. Lindley New Deal for Youth vi. 110 Boys and girls who were receiving work experience and on-the-job training as well as additional instruction on their own time. 1947 Science 28 Feb. 217/2 Hours of work, on-the-job feeding, rest periods, etc. are also phases of the physiology of work which form an important part of a comprehensive biotechnology. 1971 Optometry Today 17 On-the-job accidents and injuries could be appreciably reduced if every worker had maximum visual efficiency for the task at hand. 1973 Amer. Speech 1969 44 243 This approach..falls short of giving the reader an accurate idea of the large role that railroad language plays in on-the-job communication. 2005 Woman & Home July 151/1 The NHS is recruiting in many areas that offer on-the-job training, such as healthcare assistants. P9. out of a job: unemployed, redundant; = out of work adv. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1857 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 42/1 One week at work was sufficient to put him ‘out of a job’ for many succeeding ones. 1896 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 2 211 He may be out of a job for a while, but there are at least other employers to try. 1976 B. Donoughue Diary 17 Mar. in Downing St. Diary (2005) xxiv. 701 Have worked so long to make sure that HW stuck to his guns—now he has done so I realise that I am out of a job. 1993 R. Jenkins Chief (Anglia TV shooting script) (O.E.D. Archive) 4th Ser. Episode 2. 4 Truth might put theatricality out of a job. 2008 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 13 Jan. a1 Some 7.2 million U.S. residents were out of a job and looking for work in November. P10. colloquial (originally U.S.). to do a job on and variants: to act with destructive force or impact upon; to ruin, destroy. Cf. Phrases 2b. ΚΠ 1908 Washington Post 25 Dec. 6/3 The Venezuelan Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises appears to be doing a thorough job on Cip Castro. 1936 S. Kingsley Dead End ii. 116 They certainly did a job on him! Nothing left to look at but chopped meat. 1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture v. 200 The white man has done a job on our women's minds. 2004 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 28 Oct. (Sport section) 60 I am ready for the fight and ready to do a job on him. P11. jobs for the boys (see boy n.1 and int. Phrases 4). P12. to get on with the job: to carry on with work or a task without fuss or interference. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > continue doing or keep going in a course of action [verb (intransitive)] > continue with one's affairs to get on with the job1919 1919 Times 4 Oct. 11/5 How about all the places..where the rhythm is not very distinguished and the humour is not very apparent, all the places, that is, where the music must ‘get on with the job’? 1942 ‘A. Bridge’ Frontier Passage viii. 131 Why the hell couldn't all the extremists..allow sensible people..to get on with the job?—the job being to live the good life. 1969 Ottawa Commons Deb. 24 July 11570/2 If the opposition accords so little respect to parliament that it defines governing as evil, that getting on with the job is regarded as tyranny, then I am happy to be given the chance to join issue. 2002 F. Broughton & B. Brewster How to DJ (Properly) 27 Technics SL1200 turntables..are simple, elegant machines that just get on with the job. P13. colloquial (originally British). to be more than one's job's worth: to be liable to cost one one's job.Used esp. in the context of defending adherence to rules and regulations even at the expense of common sense: cf. jobsworth n. ΚΠ 1925 Times 7 Jan. 8/1 (advt.) Clown. That is a bit of a snag, misery being your living. Pantaloon. If you've got ‘that Kruschen feeling’ you can't even act misery. So it's more than my job's worth to have it. 1974 Sunday Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) 6 Jan. a2/3 ‘It's more than my job's worth to say anything at all,’ one guard said brusquely. 1991 Photo Answers Mar. 46/2 Or when some bastard jobsworth comes up and says, ‘No, you can't do that, you can't do this, it's more than my job's worth.’ 2004 H. Sounes Wicked Game v. 96 The cozy relationship between players and golf writers, who know it is more than their job is worth to highlight unseemly goings-on. P14. colloquial. just the job: exactly what is wanted, the very thing. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [noun] > an advantage, benefit, or favourable circumstance > a benefit > that makes happy or prosperous > a beneficial or desirable thing good thing1745 what the doctor ordered1873 just the job1943 1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 42 Just the job, if you see anything that you like, whether it is something in a shop window or a new billet, this is what you say, meaning of course that it suits you all right. 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy (1959) 193 Three dance halls, two sun-bathing parades, lots of milk bars—just the job! 1959 ‘J. Ross’ Boy in Grey Overcoat ii. 21 I thought..she'd be just the job. 1973 E. Page Fortnight by Sea ix. 98 If Mrs Barratt could possibly see her way to letting us stay on..it really would be just the job. 2001 J. Paisley Not for Glory 136 When he thought up the tights, Fraser imagined they'd be just the job. < as lemmas |
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