| 单词 | for the matter of that |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) for the matter of that f. Similarly (as) for the matter of that. ΚΠ 1732 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière George Dandin i. vi. 31 in Sel. Comedies V As for the Matter of that, Jealousy is a wonderful Thing! I bring my Daughter hither to clear up the Affair before all the World. 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 22 For the matter of that, we can afford it well enough as it is. 1844 E. A. Poe Thou art Man in Wks. (1850) II. 422 As for the matter of that, there could have been no better pioneer than ‘Old Charley’, whom everybody knew to have the eye of a lynx. 1880 Appletons' Jrnl. Feb. 145/2 If my husband says anything, he is a greater dolt than I ever took him for; and as for the matter of that, it is his bed-time. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xix. 312 I must change my dress, too, for the matter of that. 1935 J. Nehru Let. 5 July in Freedom's Daughter (1989) ii. 182 For the matter of that even medicine has gone ahead pretty fast in a variety of ways. 1965 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Theories Primitive Relig. iii. 76 How could it be upheld, or for the matter of that shown to be untrue? < as lemmas |
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