| 单词 | to the nines |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(up) to the nines (rarely nine) b. (up) to the nines (rarely nine): to perfection, to the highest degree or point. In later use chiefly in dressed (up) to the nines: dressed very elaborately or smartly. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adverb] fullfremedlyOE to envyc1369 to a wish1390 perfectlyc1395 consummately1529 sincerely1583 to the (also a) nail?1611 like a tansy1619 magisterially1625 (up) to the nines (rarely nine)?1719 puffickly1858 quintessentially1866 to the (also a) queen's taste1880 A-OK1961 ?1719 W. Hamilton in A. Ramsay & W. Hamilton Familiar Epist. 8 How to the nines they did content me. 1787 Independent Gazetteer (Philadelphia) 24 Mar. 2/3 Last Saturday, one of those notorious villains,..dressed in his laced cloaths, and powdered off to the nines, went on board of a brig, bound for Calais. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 327 'Twad please me to the Nine. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 192 Thou paints auld nature to the nines. 1821 J. Galt Ayrshire Legatees viii. 218 He's such a funny man! and touches off the Londoners to the nines. 1837 Herald (N.Y.) 11 Mar. 2/4 One evening a smart young mechanic, ‘dressed to the nines’, as Ben Bowline says, might have been seen wending his way along Broadway. 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash I. 203 Being clad in snowy cotton and japanned to the nine. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. i. 4 When she's dressed up to the nines for some grand party. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. viii. 63 Women then were defended up to the nines. 1963 N. C. E. Kenrick Story Wiltshire Regim. ix. 86 The 99th's sartorial perfection at this time [c1850] is said to have given rise to the expression ‘Dressed up to the nines’ as the other Regiments in Aldershot were constantly trying to achieve the same standard. 1979 J. Cooper Class (1980) ix. 208 He will decorate it to the nines to impress other rising pop stars. 2001 Courier (Dundee) (Electronic ed.) 27 July Dressed to the nines in a morning suit and top hat, he was hired by the tourist office to distribute leaflets. < as lemmas |
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