单词 | every inch |
释义 | > as lemmasevery inch P3. every inch: every bit, every whit; altogether, entirely, in every respect. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > that is all or the whole [phrase] > in respect of everything or part > in every respect through all thingeOE at all pointsa1375 from point to pointa1393 at all rightsc1405 in high and lowc1405 in generala1413 every incha1450 all in allc1475 at all sorts1612 all round1867 a1450 St. Etheldreda (Faust.) 720 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 298 Þat ston was well ygraue..eueryche a neynche. 1520 Chron. Eng. iii. f. 24v/1 This man was cursed every ynche. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 105 I euer inch a King. View more context for this quotation 1684 W. Winstanley Richard III in England's Worthies: Shakespeare A man of Arms, every inch of him. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. vii. 48 I tremble every Inch of me. View more context for this quotation 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1837) III. 289 Lord Nelson was an admiral, every inch of him. 1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs II. 336 His..companion..looks a soldier, every inch of him. < as lemmas |
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