| 单词 | to have a good innings |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have a good innings 3. figurative. A period of power, favour, or ascendancy; an opportunity; a turn. In later use often in to have a good innings and variants: to have a good or lengthy life.Not common in North American use (cf. inning n.2 6).Some instances of the plural form may properly belong at inning n.2 6. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life life-dayOE year-daysOE timeOE dayOE lifeOE life's timeOE livelihoodOE yearOE lifetimea1300 life-whilea1300 for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325 coursec1384 livingc1390 voyage1390 agea1398 life's dayc1425 thread1447 racea1450 living daysc1450 natural life1461 lifeness1534 twist1568 leasec1595 span1599 clew1615 marcha1625 peregrination1653 clue1684 stamen1701 life term1739 innings1772 lifelong1814 pass-through1876 inning1885 natural1891 life cycle1915 puff1967 the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > spell or bout of action turnc1230 heatc1380 touch1481 pluck?1499 push?1560 bout1575 yoking1594 pull1667 tirl1718 innings1772 go1784 gamble1785 pop1839 run1864 gang1879 inning1885 shot1939 society > authority > power > [noun] > period of power or influence a dog has his day1546 innings1772 inning1885 1772 G. A. Stevens Songs Comic & Satyrical xcviii. 183 As all to be in, suppose equal pretences, Of Innings when baulk'd, they're out of their senses. 1793 Stockton Bee June 183 Those who taste the sweets of present winnings Labour as heartily to keep their innings. 1824 P. Egan Boxiana II. 479 His stubborn frame enables him to receive more than most men; and those millers who enter the ring with Duggan may expect a long innings before he says ‘no!’. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xxiii. 238 It's my innings now, gov'rnor, and as soon as I catches hold o' this here Trotter, I'll have a good 'un. 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. vi. 81 She's had remarkably good innings, and persons can't expect to live for ever. 1917 McGill Univ. Mag. Oct. 359 The word..of the jolly brave English boy he never ceased to be—‘Well, I have had a good innings.’ 1968 S. Gore Holy Smoke 36 If thouse weren't all so thick in the skull, thouse'd flamin' know the Lord's bound to give you an innings in the long run. 2014 Sports Forever Aug. 77/2 You've had a good innings, you've travelled a lot. Now you've got to get a job. < as lemmas |
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