| 单词 | come to that |
| 释义 | > as lemmascome to that b. colloquial. †if you come to that (obsolete), come to that: if that is the case; for that matter; anyway. ΚΠ 1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 141 I only offer to purchase to make things easy and oblige him—though I don't see what compliment I am under, if you come to that. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxiv. 292 I've been as good a son as ever you were a brother. It's the pot and the kettle, if you come to that. 1891 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 293/1 Why in snakes should anybody want to be a sculptor, if you come to that? 1942 Penguin New Writing 12 84 He was plumb scared of war. Come to that, so am I. 1964 R. Jeffries Embarrassing Death iii. 21 You don't want to be nice for this job—or for any other job, come to that. 2014 London Evening Standard 9 Oct. (West End Final ed.) 45/1 This narrative from a woman's perspective is tone-true. So, come to that, was Tóibín's well-received novel Brooklyn. < as lemmas |
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