| 单词 | to have a person's name on it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have a person's name on it P18. to have a person's name on it: (of a bullet, etc.) to be destined to hit a particular person; (hence more widely) to be destined or appropriate for a particular person. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > must as decreed by fate [verb (intransitive)] > be destined for a person (of bullet) to have a person's name on it1917 to have a person's number on it1917 1917 A. G. Empey Over Top 312 Tommy detests these mortars because..he knows that it is only a matter of minutes before a German shell with his name and number on it will be knocking at his door. 1919 Athenæum 18 July 632/2 A soldier refers to the shell that kills him as ‘having his name and number on it’. 1959 R. Storey Touch it Light in Plays of Year XVIII. 376 Ted. That farmer don't like us, sir. Ever since that bomb fell on his cowshed. Og. He thought it should have fallen on you? Syd. It had our name on it all right. 1973 D. Francis Slay-ride xii. 140 The bomb probably had my name on it in the first place. 1979 N. Wallington Fireman! iii. 45 My younger watch colleagues had already forewarned me: somewhere in the water main were a few gallons of water which had my name on them. 1991 G. Cotter Eng. v. West Indies 287 With West Indies on 147 for 2 and Richards and Richardson in full flow, the game had West Indies' name on it. < as lemmas |
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