英语词汇“all talk and no do”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. The action of doing, or that which is done; action, business. Now chiefly in all talk and no do. Occasionally also as a count noun.fair do's: see fair adj. and n.¹ Compounds 1b.

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1580 Edinb. Test. VIII. 189 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) He left to Bessie Potter his spous his maling & steding,..and his sone to haif na do thairwith sa lang as scho is not cled with ane husband.

1590 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1876) I. 151 Scho being doing the said maister Dauid hir maisteris dois at the Skellis Myre.

1669 T. Gale True Idea Jansenisme 105 The will, and the doe.

1854 H. Strickland Trav. Thoughts Ded. Pref. p. iv Things were beginning to look excessively like all talk and no do.

1880 J. Morris New Nation I. i. 17 In refusing to listen to the arguments of so-called rationalists, these people do so from the conviction that ‘it is all talk and no do’.

1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 40 All spuffle an' no do.

1988 J. Cartwright Interior viii. 90 Dreadful gas-bag... All talk and no do.

单词	all talk and no do
释义	> as lemmas all talk and no do a. The action of doing, or that which is done; action, business. Now chiefly in all talk and no do. Occasionally also as a count noun.fair do's: see fair adj. and n.¹ Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1580 Edinb. Test. VIII. 189 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) He left to Bessie Potter his spous his maling & steding,..and his sone to haif na do thairwith sa lang as scho is not cled with ane husband. 1590 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1876) I. 151 Scho being doing the said maister Dauid hir maisteris dois at the Skellis Myre. 1669 T. Gale True Idea Jansenisme 105 The will, and the doe. 1854 H. Strickland Trav. Thoughts Ded. Pref. p. iv Things were beginning to look excessively like all talk and no do. 1880 J. Morris New Nation I. i. 17 In refusing to listen to the arguments of so-called rationalists, these people do so from the conviction that ‘it is all talk and no do’. 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 40 All spuffle an' no do. 1988 J. Cartwright Interior viii. 90 Dreadful gas-bag... All talk and no do. extracted from don.¹ < as lemmas
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