单词 | deuce knows what all |
释义 | > as lemmasdeuce knows what all (b) deuce knows what all, God knows what all, the Lord knows what all, who knows what all, etc. ΚΠ a1652 R. Brome New Acad. i. 15 in Five New Playes (1659) Think of me your brother, that has spent In down-right fellowship (heaven knows what All fraudulent purposes to make any man A miser or a gainer by't). 1762 Beauties of all Mag. Sel. I. 8/2 I suppose, you'll open upon me with morality; right and wrong; and the Devil knows what all. 1766 W. Kenrick Falstaff's Wedding i. v. 6 That..I was obliged to pay the lord-knows-what-all away for one thing or other. 1785 H. Polesworth Fragm. Hist. John Bull, Esq. vii. 52 A vast expence in cooks, scullions, firing, and God knows what all. 1832 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 157/1 We have surely been raving about sun, moon, and stars—flowers, birds, and distant hills—necessity, women, and deuce knows what all, when we ought to have given an account of the Indian nautch-dance. 1948 S. J. Perelman Westward Ha! i. 14 By judicious shopping I managed to gather a splendid kit for my journey—a machete, a sola topee, a poncho, an apparatus for distilling seawater, and deuce knows what-all. 1986 R. Ford Sportswriter viii. 202 You can see the UPS truck on our street every day still, leaving off hammocks and smokers and God knows what all. 1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 25 Dec. e4 (advt.) We've got a following made up of New Agers, old lefties, marketing gurus, political hacks, jet-setters, whole earthers, and who knows what all. < as lemmas |
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