单词 | don't tell me |
释义 | > as lemmasdon't (also never) tell me (also us) (a) In negative constructions, expressing incredulity, impatience, or (with clause as object) dismay; esp. in don't (also never) tell me (also us).you don't mean to tell me: see mean v.1 5. ΚΠ 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Iust Censure & Reproofe sig. D.ijv Neuer tell me, that he is too graue to trouble himselfe with Martins conceits. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. i. 1 Neuer tell me, I take it much vnkindly. View more context for this quotation 1675 R. Head Nugæ Venales (ed. 2) 44 Sir, said his man it is early day yet, the clock having but just now struck ten; Pish, sayes he, don't tell me of ten by the clock, when it hath struck Twelve by my stomack. 1729 T. Odell Smugglers i. 19 Both. We..find it can't be afforded. Conscience. Phoo, pox, don't tell me so; I know what your Wine costs ye; a meer Trifle. 1764 S. Foote Patron iii. 67 Not to be spoke with! Don't tell me, Sir; he must, he shall. a1843 R. Haines Richard Plantagenet (?1883) iii. iii. 18 Nay, never tell me; I won't suffer this melancholy. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner ix. 143 Not come to live in this house? Don't tell me. 1925 C. Archer tr. S. Undset Mistress of Husaby ii. i. 119 Nay, now, never tell me you are to be our King, Erling Vidkunssön! 1944 M. Laski Love on Supertax iv. 52 Who's your latest pick-up?..Not Sir Hubert Porkington! Don't tell me you've actually hooked him! 1961 E. E. Smith & E. E. Evans Masters of Space (2011) 220 Oh, no. Not again?.. Don't tell us it's Terra again, Dark Lady, please. 1973 Farm & Country 10 Apr. 11/4 ‘Don't tell me we've got to go through that again,’ said one executive member in an audible groan. 1989 I. Asimov Nemesis (1990) 94 You're not going to tell me she was a telepath. 2012 S. Townsend Woman who went to Bed for Year iv. 30 Don't tell me you've got religion, Eva. It always ends in tears. < as lemmas |
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