| 单词 | in so many words |
| 释义 | in so many wordsIn those precise words; also, plainly, directly. For example, He didn't tell me in so many words, but I understood that he planned to apply, or, as Charles Dickens put it in Sketches by “Boz” (1836): “That the Lord Mayor had threatened in so many words to pull down the London Bridge.” [Late 1600s] Words nearby in so many wordsinsoluble, insolvable, insolvency, insolvency provision, insolvent, in so many words, in some measure, in someone's, in someone's bad graces, in someone's face, in someone's good graces The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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