| 单词 | dead easy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdead easy a. Hence more generally: Utterly, entirely, absolutely, quite. (Cf. A. 31a) Esp. dead broke (see broke adj. 3a), dead certain, dead easy, dead frozen sure, dead level, dead right, dead sure. Now colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > utterly allOE allOE outlyOE thwert-outc1175 skerea1225 thoroughc1225 downrightc1275 purec1300 purelyc1300 faira1325 finelyc1330 quitec1330 quitelyc1330 utterlyc1374 outerlya1382 plainlya1382 straighta1387 allutterly1389 starkc1390 oultrelya1393 plata1393 barec1400 outrightc1400 incomparablyc1422 absolutely?a1425 simpliciter?a1425 staringa1425 quitementa1450 properlyc1450 directly1455 merec1475 incomparable1482 preciselyc1503 clean?1515 cleara1522 plain1535 merely1546 stark1553 perfectly1555 right-down1566 simply1574 flat1577 flatly1577 skire1581 plumb1588 dead?1589 rankly1590 stark1593 sheera1600 start1599 handsmooth1600 peremptory1601 sheerly1601 rank1602 utter1619 point-blank1624 proofa1625 peremptorily1626 downrightly1632 right-down1646 solid1651 clever1664 just1668 hollow1671 entirely1673 blank1677 even down1677 cleverly1696 uncomparatively1702 subtly1733 point1762 cussed1779 regularly1789 unqualifiedly1789 irredeemably1790 positively1800 cussedly1802 heart1812 proper1816 slick1818 blankly1822 bang1828 smack1828 pluperfectly1831 unmitigatedly1832 bodaciously1833 unredeemedly1835 out of sight1839 bodacious1845 regular1846 thoroughly1846 ingrainedly1869 muckinga1880 fucking1893 motherless1898 self1907 stone1928 sideways1956 terminally1974 ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 5v Oh he is olde dogge at expounding, and deade sure at a Catechisme. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 146 A dead, spiteful, grey, goggling Eye. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. i. v. 34 He cut the Doctor quite dead at Greek to-day. 1845 Cultivator 2 92 As I..come out upon the high prairie with the wind ‘dead ahead’. 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 3 The small coals..are..passed over a second skreen, [to separate] the nuts..and the dead small, or duff, which falls through the skreen. 1857 R. Tomes Americans in Japan ix. 196 Before the rice is ‘dead ripe’. 1860 W. F. Hook Lives Archbps. (1862) II. ii. 93 Only one horse..which soon became dead lame. a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (1883) 280 Prairieland lies dead level for leagues. 1871 J. Hay Pike County Ballads 10 He'd seen his duty a dead-sure thing. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xxxix. 414 We'll cotton-seed his salad for him..that's a dead-certain thing. 1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus 59 I saw directly that I'd mashed her—she was gone, dead gone, sir. 1894 in E. R. Lamson Yale Wit & Humor 47 (caption) A Dead Easy Queen Caught His Eye. 1895 J. L. Williams Princeton Stories 166 You're dead right in saying he's too young. 1897 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 297/2 I was dead frozen sure that I had a sure tip on a wheat deal. 1903 A. Bennett Let. 24 Aug. (1960) 96 She is dead right all through. 1904 W. H. Smith Promoters v. 92 For a dead easy mark in a business way, commend me to a preacher. 1906 Springfield Weekly Republican 12 July 3 His scouts..report that Moran [a candidate for governor] has a dead-sure thing. 1908 G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock i. 19 It was like having one of those mushy girls dead gone on you. 1922 D. H. Lawrence Aaron's Rod vii. 71 She liked him because of his dead-level indifference to his surroundings. 1923 ‘B. M. Bower’ Parowan Bonanza i. 15 ‘You're dead right, old girl,’ Bill agreed. 1930 ‘J. J. Connington’ Two Tickets Puzzle xiv. 222 There's no great trouble in guessing who's mixed up in the business—that's dead easy. 1930 W. Gibson Hazards 12 He could always plane the deal Dead-level; ay, his work was always true. 1959 J. Braine Vodi i. 22 You're mardy. You're dead mardy. 1961 A. Simpson & R. Galton Four Hancock Scripts 43/2 Tony and Sid are dead bored. 1963 D. Lessing Man & Two Women 140 ‘That's right,’ said Charlie, ‘you're dead right.’ < as lemmas |
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