| 单词 | fed up to the back teeth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfed up to the back teeth fed up adj. colloquial (originally Military) having had enough of a person or situation; annoyed, unhappy, or bored, esp. with a state of affairs that has persisted for a long time; also in intensifying phrases, as fed up to the back teeth (cf. sense 3).Chiefly in predicative use. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] irk1303 tedious1430 irksome1435 irked1513 ennuyé1757 seccatored1763 yawny1805 bored1823 used up1839 yawnish1855 fed up1900 fed to the (back) teeth1921 browned off1938 brassed1941 cheesed1941 chocker1942 pissy1962 1879 F. Arnold in London Society June 567/2 He himself essentially belongs to ‘the sty of Epicurus’... Fed up to the eyelids himself, it is no care to him that there are other people all otherwise than so well off.] 1900 B. Burleigh in Daily Tel. 20 Oct. 7/1 'Oh, I'm about fed up with it', is the current slang of the camps when officers and men speak of the war. 1914 Evening News 19 Sept. 4/1 We have also seen hundreds of German prisoners, mostly looking ‘fed up’. 1919 C. Dawson Test of Scarlet iii. iv. 208 The infantry are fed up to the back-teeth with the way in which the guns have failed to keep in touch with them. 1955 Times 15 June 9/2 A major relief to a frankly fed-up and frustrated nation. 1970 N. Y. Times 26 Mar. 41/3 I'm just fed up to death with the talk about democracy and the right to dissent. 1991 C. Eddy Stairway to Hell 92/1 Eight years into punk's dole-queue reign..three fed-up spikeheads with no alternatives in sight grab cricket bats and start beating skulls. 2005 A. Bell tr. K. Duve This is not Love Song 86 And now I was really fed up to the back teeth. fed (up) to the (back) teeth d. fed (up) to the (back) teeth: see fed to the (back) teeth at fed adj. 3. < as lemmas |
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