| 单词 | you wait! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyou wait! k. (you) wait till (or until).., used to imply a threat, warning, etc., or promise of something interesting or exciting, when the specified event has occurred. Also elliptical as you wait! ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait for, await [verb (transitive)] > implying threat (you) wait till (or until)‥1938 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock iii. i. 99 ‘I dunno who Brewer is,’ Ida said, ‘but things seem lively.’ ‘You wait till the races start,’ the man said. ‘They'll be lively all right then.’ 1953 E. Simon Past Masters iii. iii. 154 Parents brazened out their children's tantrums with the key-phase of, ‘You wait!’. 1960 S. Barstow Kind of Loving ii. ii. 162 Seventy-four guineas, Henry. Seventy-four bloody lovely guineas. Just wait till we tell Mr. Van Huyten about this. 1975 J. Gores Hammett xix. 130 She was going over to..tea with the George F. Biltmores! Wait until she wrote her mother about that! 1984 Guardian 5 Oct. 14/3 Mr Scargill..will soon, very soon—just you wait—emerge triumphant. < as lemmas |
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