| 单词 | colour me |
| 释义 | > as lemmascolour me (also him, her, etc.) —— transitive. North American colloquial. colour me (also him, her, etc.) ——: used to indicate that a person can be regarded as ——; ‘consider me (him, her, etc.) ——’. Frequently humorous.Probably alluding to instructions in children's colouring books: cf. quot. 1927.‘Colour me blue!’ in quot. 1910 appears to be an exclamation of surprise or astonishment; cf. strike me pink! at strike v. 46c. ΚΠ 1910 T. W. Hanshew Man of 40 Faces iii. 86 ‘I think it's Margot's gang.’ ‘Oh, colour me blue! Them beauties? And in London?’ 1927 Maryland School Bull. Dec. i. 21 Pupils..follow directions independently... 4. I can play with you. I can run. I say ‘Bow, wow.’ Draw me. Color me brown.] 1963 Filter June 71/1 See me on the first page with a clean uniform... Color me eager. 1977 High Point (N. Carolina) Enterprise 7 Dec. 2 c/2 Make his eyes sparkle like diamonds, because that's what made his girls pocket a 46-32 victory. Color him a winner. 1992 T. McMillan Waiting to Exhale (1993) 42 Well, color me stupid, because I didn't want to believe he was seeing another woman. 2008 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 12 July a8/1 ‘Well, color me surprised... not.’ < as lemmas |
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