英语词汇“to turn the best side outward”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(a) to turn the best side outward(s) and variants: to make the best appearance possible; to show a person or thing to best advantage. Now rare.

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1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. 252 You throughout your whole booke make this a maruellous good estate, and alwayes turne the best side outwarde.

1610 R. Harris Absaloms Funerall 6 When embassadors came [sic] to visite him, he carries them from place to place, and sets the best side outward.

1663 S. Pepys Diary 9 Nov. (1971) IV. 375 A conceited man and one that would put the best side outward.

1729 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers II. xx. 649 Sir Robert Mansel's Letter..(wherein he apparently endeavours to put the best Side outwards).

1755 Hist. Will Ramble I. i. vii. 50 He was very poor, although he always endeavoured to put the best Side outwards.

1871 E. Thorp Visit to Old House in Country 70 She made the best of it—turned the best side outwards, so to speak.

1883 G. W. Godfrey Unspotted from World II. ii. 44 Everything turns its best side outwards, and the other side is an unsavoury and unsightly one.

1904 Acad. & Lit. 19 Nov. 481/1 The author has..a refreshing power of turning everybody's best side outwards.

单词	to turn the best side outward
释义	> as lemmas to turn the best side outward(s) (a) to turn the best side outward(s) and variants: to make the best appearance possible; to show a person or thing to best advantage. Now rare. ΚΠ 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. 252 You throughout your whole booke make this a maruellous good estate, and alwayes turne the best side outwarde. 1610 R. Harris Absaloms Funerall 6 When embassadors came [sic] to visite him, he carries them from place to place, and sets the best side outward. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 9 Nov. (1971) IV. 375 A conceited man and one that would put the best side outward. 1729 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers II. xx. 649 Sir Robert Mansel's Letter..(wherein he apparently endeavours to put the best Side outwards). 1755 Hist. Will Ramble I. i. vii. 50 He was very poor, although he always endeavoured to put the best Side outwards. 1871 E. Thorp Visit to Old House in Country 70 She made the best of it—turned the best side outwards, so to speak. 1883 G. W. Godfrey Unspotted from World II. ii. 44 Everything turns its best side outwards, and the other side is an unsavoury and unsightly one. 1904 Acad. & Lit. 19 Nov. 481/1 The author has..a refreshing power of turning everybody's best side outwards. extracted from bestadj.n.¹adv. < as lemmas
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