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单词 for all one is worth
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for all one is worth
P5. Originally U.S. for all it's worth and variants: to the fullest extent. Similarly for all one is worth: with all one's energy or resources. Cf. for all one's worth at worth n.1 Phrases 3.Frequently collocated with milk v. 10 (e.g. quots. 1950 and 1991).
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [phrase] > with all one's might
(at, by, with) all one's mightOE
by (also by one's) powerc1300
with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330
at (also at all, after) one's power1384
upon one's powerc1400
to (the best of, the uttermost of, the extent of) one's power?a1425
tooth and naila1535
with tooth and naila1535
with both hands1549
with teeth and alla1600
horse and footc1600
with all one's force1677
for all it's worth1864
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > in or to the greatest degree
never solOE
with (also mid) the mostc1275
for the masteryc1325
to the bestc1390
to the uttermostc1400
at the hardest1429
to the utmostc1450
to the skies (also sky)1559
at float1594
all to nothing1606
to the height1609
to the proofa1625
to the last degree1639
to the welkin?1746
(the) worst kind1839
for all it's worth1864
as —— as they make them?a1880
in the highest1897
to the nth (degree, power)1897
up to eleven1987
1864 Boston Post 27 Jan. Virginia had been used for all it was worth.
1883 Sunday Mercury (N.Y.) 18 Mar. 7/1 Scalchi, to use a side-walk phrase, played Siebel for all the character was worth.
1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 1 Oct. 2/14 The Boston Post, having worked the bogus..letter for all that it was worth, now admits that it was a forgery.
1889 A. C. Gunter That Frenchman! xxi. 298 [The steamer] is driving, for everything she is worth, down the waters of the Finnish Gulf.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 197 We spun round and round..I steering the whole time for all I was worth.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid v. 58 It was obvious that she was playing little girlishness for all that she was worth.
1950 A. Huxley Let. 15 Nov. (1969) 631 My feeling about the story is that you have got hold of something big, but have not yet milked it for all it is worth.
1991 Amer. Square Dance May 13/1 Have you milked the opportunity for all it's worth?
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 19 May c19/2 He was fighting a holding action, filibustering for all he was worth.
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