单词 | to miss but |
释义 | > as lemmasto miss but b. intransitive. Originally (with non-referential it as subject): to fail to happen or come about (now rare). In later use chiefly: (of a person, etc.) to fail (to do something). Frequently in to miss but, usually with bare infinitive or to and infinitive. Now Scottish and Irish English (northern). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > not to happen or become unhappened unbetidec1374 missa1393 unhappen1805 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 1362 (MED) Who loveth wel, it mai noght misse..Bot if that thei som weie finde. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 157 He will nocht mise bot he will ȝoke allis sune witht ȝow at ȝour bakis as the wther partie will befoir. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xl. 130 Death hath come, or it wil not misse. 1651 D. Dickson Brief Expos. Matthew (ed. 3) 254/5 It cannot misse but errours will arise. a1699 J. Kirkton Secret & True Hist. Church Scotl. (1817) 344 It mist but little that they went not to the Lady Yester's church. 1765 W. Forbes Dominie Deposed (new ed.) 38 You'll stand, I fear upon your shankies, And maybe slaver in the brankies; It could not miss. 1796 J. Lauderdale Coll. Poems Sc. Dial. 10 Four pounds a head, a year auld steer, How can he miss but thrive? 1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xxvi. 228 [She] canna miss but to die o' a broken heart. 1849 J. Ritson Pastoral Dial. 6 I lith'd him yeance, sea canna miss but know. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 224/2 Cannot miss but, cannot fail to. < as lemmas |
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