英语词汇“dressed to/up to the nines”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

dressed to/up to the nines

informal dressed very smartly or elaborately

[To the nine (s) originally had the more general meaning ‘to perfection’, first used by Burns in Pastoral Poetry in the 1790s (‘Thou paints auld Nature to the nines’). It was first used with the specific application to dress in the 1850s. Association with the smart dress of a British army regiment called the 99th Foot Soldiers is not supported by historical evidence. The philologist Walter Skeat ingeniously suggested an origin in dressed up to the neyen (= eyes, also a variant of nine)’.]

单词	dressed to/up to the nines
释义	dressed to/up to the nines informal dressed very smartly or elaborately [To the nine (s) originally had the more general meaning ‘to perfection’, first used by Burns in Pastoral Poetry in the 1790s (‘Thou paints auld Nature to the nines’). It was first used with the specific application to dress in the 1850s. Association with the smart dress of a British army regiment called the 99th Foot Soldiers is not supported by historical evidence. The philologist Walter Skeat ingeniously suggested an origin in dressed up to the neyen (= eyes, also a variant of nine)’.] Main Entry: nine
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