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单词 to owe a big one
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to owe (someone) a big one
P2. colloquial. to owe (someone) one, (also) to owe (someone) a big one: (a) to be beholden or indebted to someone for a favour, act of kindness, etc., done for one; (b) to bear a grudge against someone (cf. sense 4a); to desire revenge for an ill deed done against one.
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1802 G. Colman Poor Gentleman (new ed.) i. ii. 16 Thank you, good Sir, I owe you one.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd (1849) vi. i. 252 I owed him one for his shortness about family concerns.
1877 Spirit of Times 15 Dec. 532/3 His looks told him that he had got even with Ferry at last. The tables are turned. Ferry owes him ‘one’.
1975 Newsweek (Nexis) 29 Dec. 57 Do it because you owe me one... I carried you for nine months.
1984 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Nov. a23 They suspect that they may have been among Reagan's most potent allies in his landslide reelection this year. Ironically, their private view is that he owes them a big one.
1993 J. Russell Payback (BNC) 158 I fucking owe you one... You killed my oppo.
2001 W. Ferguson Generica vii. 52 Jenni looked up from untying Edwin's shoes. ‘Owe you one, May,’ she said cheerfully.
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