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单词 as if one owns the place
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as if one owns the place
b. as if one owns the place and variants: describing arrogant or insouciant behaviour; (also) to think one owns the place.
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1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xi. 88 The woman fell to talking about how hard times was, and how poor they had to live, and how the rats was as free as if they owned the place.
1942 T. Bailey Pink Camellia xxvi. 187 She acts as if she owned the place.
1977 M. Kenyon Rapist v. 52 Poncing rapist English..thinking they owned the place.
1995 Independent 10 Nov. (Suppl.) 7/4 The men are everywhere..in the cafés, night-clubs, discos, as if they owned the place.
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