单词 | you've had your lot |
释义 | > as lemmasyou've had your lot P8. colloquial (originally and chiefly British). that's (also it's) your lot, you've had your lot: you have had your chance (and lost it); you are in trouble; ‘you've had it’. Also (now chiefly): you have had all that you are going to receive; there is no more. Also occasionally in the first or third person. ΚΠ 1948 R. Harrison Whitehall 1212 vii. 82 ‘This is a stick-up,’ said the voice. ‘Keep your —— mouth shut or it's your lot.’ 1955 Rubber Jrnl. 23 Apr. 518/1 The Budget..gives a small measure of relief in income tax and grants a purchase tax concession..on certain household textiles. ‘And’—as comedian Jimmy Wheeler says—‘that's yer lot.’ 1956 North Adams (Mass.) Transcript 20 June 6/5 These rather crude planes move all the mass of delegations and missions around the vast country, though there is a saying among English-speaking people, ‘Fly Aeroflot and you've had your lot.’ 1968 A. Chambers Chicken Run i. v. 28 You got to have a good bike, or that's your lot. 1973 Times 12 Dec. 2/7 Hate slogans scrawled on a blackboard. One read, ‘Tina Wilson is going to be done over’, and another, ‘Tina Wilson has had her lot tonight’. 1984 D. Cannell Thin Woman x. 115 I promised him twenty quid but that's his lot. 1996 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 7 Jan. (Review Suppl.) 30 Who do you think you are? You've had your lot. I'm in charge of this column. Sod off. 1998 I. Welsh Filth 330 He's gone for a second or two and returns, producing a gram.—That's it Bruce, that's my lot. 2009 B. Arndt Sex Diaries ii. 23 One might give the other a quick feel in the shower along with the quip, ‘Well, that's your lot for the week.’ < as lemmas |
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