单词 | enough, already! |
释义 | > as lemmasenough, already! 3. Originally and chiefly U.S. Esp. in Jewish usage: used as an intensifier after a word or phrase, esp. to express impatience, exasperation, etc. Frequently in enough, already! ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adverb] > outstandingly > used in final position meaning 'now' already1903 1903 McClure's Mag. Dec. 219/1 I tole the conductor I wanted off right away at the corner already. 1943 M. Shulman Barefoot Boy (1944) 21 ‘Yes, young man, this story has helped a great many people, and I hope it will help you.’ ‘So tell it already,’ I said. 1958 Amer. Speech 33 232 Contrast..‘He has lost his respect for her already,’ cited from Pennsylvania-German American speech..with ‘Finish up, already!’ from Jewish American speech. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 204 Other syntactical idiosyncrasies have been moving beyond their usual circuit—from the shoyn-inspired already, as in, ‘Enough, already!’.., which has been heard on the old Paul Winchell television show among others, to [etc.]. 1964 D. Greenburg How to be Jewish Mother (1966) 27 Give me the watermelon already. 1975 New Yorker 11 Aug. 29/1 ‘And Mrs. Orfinger?’ ‘Dead, Ma. Last year already.’ 1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Mar. 108/1 Enough already with these crazy kids and their wacky dances, he seems to be harrumphing. 2002 A. Davies Frog King 21 She at last put her number on a stickie and wrote under it, ‘Okay okay okay already.’ < as lemmas |
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