| 单词 | to have enough to do |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have enough to do (also †ado) P1. to have enough to do (also †ado): to have great difficulty, have to exert all one's powers (to accomplish something) (cf. ado n. 1). Also (in Middle English): †to have enough. Also to give someone enough to do, to find enough to do. Now also with participial phrase, e.g. to have enough to do keeping order.Cf. to have enow to do at enow pron. 2. ΚΠ ?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Ðat wæron rachenteges ðat twa oþer thre men hadden onoh to bæron onne. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16906 Þe prince..went to þat monument And sperd it wit a mikel stan; to turn i-nogh had tuent. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 265 They thought they should have ynough to do to defende the towne. 1575 T. Newton tr. C. A. Curione Notable Hist. Saracens iii. 106 Neither was there any at hand to help them, for euery one had ynough adoe to labour & sweate for his owne life and saluetie. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 246 He had enough to do to saue and helpe. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 12 Mar. 2/2 I shall find enough to do to give Orders proper for their Service, to whom I am by Will of their Parents Guardian. 1746 J. Cope Rep. Cond. 126 She would have enough ado to get home. 1796 G. Quayle Jrnl. in Mariner's Mirror 54 (1968) 302 It blew so hard & the Tide driving in the Wind Eye gave us enough to do to keep the Water under by bailing. 1852 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. I. vii. 53 The martinettish General had..enough ado to keep his Aides under military discipline. 1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man vi. 42 The wearers of the butcher's colours had enough to do to keep steeks with us. 1977 F. Ainsworth Persephone 11 You got enough to do to catch that crazy dog. 2009 Winnipeg Free Press 26 June a3/3 You'd think we have enough to do just moving our shop without running smack into another moving adventure! < as lemmas |
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