单词 | would you believe it? |
释义 | > as lemmaswould you believe it? b. would you believe it? (see will v.1 31). ΚΠ 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas II. ii. vii. 65/1 Meanwhile, (would you believe it?) this ferocious disposition, this haughty woman, is..entirely changed. 1776 H. More Let. (1925) 33 Would you believe it? In the midst of all the pomps and vanities of this wicked town, I have taken it into my head to study like a dragon. 1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage II. ii. 35 Now, would you believe it? I have used up three lifts of notepaper already. 1899 J. Conrad Lord Jim in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 810/2 He set the log for me; he—would you believe it?—he put a drop of oil in it too. 1955 Rotarian Dec. 21/3 Would you believe it, lady, last week one of the biggest stores in the city wouldn't give me as much as a box of colored chalks, but one of the littlest ones let me have 50 dolls at less than they paid for 'em. 2008 P. Hensher Northern Clemency 317 The great tradition of student cooking, passed on from mouth to mouth over the years. I even cooked it for other people, would you believe it? < as lemmas |
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