单词 | too right |
释义 | > as lemmastoo right d. colloquial (originally Australian and New Zealand). too right: expressing emphatic agreement or approval: ‘yes, indeed’, ‘absolutely’. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [interjection] > emphasizing a preceding statement vow1788 I'll say1919 too right1919 the mind > language > statement > assent > [adverb] > expression of assent yesOE yeaOE soa1400 toa1525 very well1529 yus1775 yerse1862 yeah1863 yeh1868 orright1874 yep1883 yup1887 ayuh1894 yairs1896 yayus1900 yip1906 too right1919 quite1924 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 51 Two eyes right or too right, certainly. 1926 K. S. Prichard Working Bullocks iv. 41 ‘That's to say you're as big a fool fruit-growing as Bill Graeme is catching wild horses.’ Wally Burke's eyes took the fire-light as he smiled. ‘Too right,’ he said. 1943 D. Stewart Ned Kelly i. i. 23 Devine's still in the lock-up?.. Too right he is. 1951 J. Fleming Man who looked Back xi. 145 ‘We should have thought of that before we started out.’ ‘Too right,’ Joe agreed. 1977 Zigzag Aug. 31/1 Something better change—too right mate! 2004 M. Keyes Other Side of Story (2005) 75 ‘This comes as a..surprise?’ Too right it did... ‘I was scuttered,’ I whispered. ‘It was Saturday night,’ he said. < as lemmas |
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