| 单词 | to think small beer of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto think small beer of c. colloquial (now historical and rare). to think small beer of (and variants): to have a poor or low opinion of (oneself or others); chiefly with negatives. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [verb (transitive)] haveeOE weenc1000 praisec1250 setc1374 set by1393 endaunt1399 prizec1400 reverencec1400 tender1439 repute1445 to have (also make, take) regard to or that1457 to take, make, set (no) count of (upon, by)c1475 pricec1480 to make (great, etc.) account (also count, esteem, estimation, reckoning, regard, store) of1483 force1509 to look upon ——c1515 to have (also hold) in estimationc1522 to make reckoning of1525 esteem1530 regard1533 to tell, make, hold, set (great, little, no) store of1540 value1549 to make dainty of (anything)1555 reckon1576 to be struck on1602 agrade1611 respect1613 beteem1627 appreciate1648 to put, set (an) esteem, a high, low esteem upon1665 to think small beer of1816 to think the world of1826 existimate1847 reckon1919 rate1973 1816 Antijacobin Rev. June 639 Not thinking small beer of himself. 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 32 He was not thought small beer of. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1855) II. i. 10 She thinks small beer of painters, J. J.—well, we don't think small beer of ourselves, my noble friend. 1873 Punch 18 Jan. 30/2 Is it consistent for..a teetotaller to think no small beer of himself? 1925 Music & Lett. 6 119 We Europeans think small beer of unharmonised music. 1956 P. O'Brian Golden Ocean iv. 64 I was first of the Falkland then and thought no small beer of myself. < as lemmas |
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