| 单词 | good time coming |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgood (also braw, etc.) time coming f. Originally Scottish. good (also braw, etc.) time coming: a future time of good fortune, esp. one which is eagerly anticipated or has been foretold.The phrase there's a good time coming, apparently originally a Scottish proverb, was given wider currency through the popular song from which quot. 1846 is taken. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > expression of hope [phrase] perish the thought (also man, name)1526 while there's life there's hope1539 good (also braw, etc.) time cominga1780 a1780 W. Mair 28 Lect. (1781) ix. 110 As we use to say, there is a good time coming: you are at least getting so much in hand, as keeps you from sinking altogether. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. v. 149 ‘There's a guid time coming.’ ‘No time like the time present, Mr Campbell.’ 1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. To Correspondents As Fairservice has it, ‘There's a braw time coming.’ 1846 C. Mackay Voices from Crowd 22 There's a good time coming, boys, A good time coming: We may not live to see the day. 1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 4 Jan. 4/3 He said that in the good time coming some Senator would rise in the legislative hall, and move that [etc.]. 1874 A. Trollope Lady Anna I. iii. 35 She did not believe in the good time coming as did her mother. 1949 Life 24 Jan. 19/3 It still looked bad. But Governor Muñoz said there was a good time coming, and most were inclined to believe him. 1985 P. Gardella Innocent Ecstasy iv. 74 Most perfectionist doctors looked for a ‘good time coming’ in which marital sex would occur for purposes of conception only. 2001 C. S. Rodd Glimpses Strange Land 126 Jeremiah says that in the good time coming the individual alone will suffer for his sin. < as lemmas |
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