释义 |
ˈlack-a-day, int. Obs. or arch. [Aphetized form of alack-a-day.] = alack-a-day.
1695Congreve Love for L. ii. ii, Good lack-a-day, ha, ha, ha. 1728Morgan Algiers I. vi. 189 Lack-a-Day, Sir, everything will be dwindled away to just nothing. 1719Fielding Tom Jones x. ix, Good-lack-a-day! why there now, who would have thought it! 1779F. Burney Diary Nov., I wish all the cloth were like him; but, lackaday! 'tis no such thing. 1820W. Tooke tr. Lucian I. 455 Lackaday; they are gone every mother's son. 1849Miss Mulock Ogilvies xvi. (1875) 127 Ah, lack-a-day! it's a troublesome world! |