| 单词 | to make top or bottom of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make top or bottom of (c) to make top or bottom of and variants: to make sense of. Chiefly in negative constructions, as in I couldn't make top or bottom of it, no one could make top or bottom of it, etc.Cf. to make head nor tail of at head n.1 Phrases 3r(a), to make neither top nor toe of at Phrases 2b, not to make top nor tail of at Phrases 3d. ΚΠ 1852 Cork Examiner 13 Sept. 2/5 For bothering the heads of a Board of Guardians..by a batch of statistics, which would puzzle the actuary of the Bank of England to make top or bottom out of. 1878 ‘S. Mostyn’ Little Loo I. xvi. 208 I'm a bad hand at figures, and never could make top nor bottom of logarithms. 1891 Northampton Mercury 9 Jan. 3/4 Alderman Clarke said it was an extraordinary epistle; no one could make top or bottom of it. 1981 S. Rushdie Midnight's Children ii. 199 God knows what the poor man was babbling.., I couldn't make top or bottom of it. 2015 E. Lindsey Bloodforged viii. 69 I don't see how he's going to make top nor bottom of all this. < as lemmas |
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