| 单词 | to suit a person's book |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto suit a person's book n. to suit a person's book: to be convenient or agreeable to a person; to be in line with his or her plans.Originally a bookmaker's phrase: see sense 11. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > be convenient [verb (intransitive)] to suit a person's book1827 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > be courteous [verb (intransitive)] > be agreeable to make good visagec1386 to make (rarely bear) fair weatherc1400 to do (also make, play) the agreeable1825 to suit a person's book1827 1827 Bell's Life in London 16 Sept. It would be unjust to throw out an imputation upon any sporting event, without sufficient evidence... Anonymous assertion will not suit our book. 1851 R. I. Murchison Let. 14 Apr. in Lady Prestwich Life Sir J. Prestwich (1899) 83 Would it suit your book to make a run of a day or two to the other side of the Weald? 1852 F. E. Smedley Lewis Arundel vi By which time he expects to be so hard up that he must marry somebody, and as there will be plenty of the needful she will suit his book as well as any other. 1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) 420 The actual results have probably been variable in any given year..to suit the book of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being. 1955 Times 30 Aug. 6/1 Plainly the strikes suit the Communists' book. 2009 F. McLynn Marcus Aurelius 425 Commodus was..venal and would sell anything if the price was right, even allowing murder as part of the transaction if it suited his book. < as lemmas |
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