| 单词 | anyone for ——? |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanyone for ——? 3. Used interrogatively as a term of collective address, soliciting individual responses either from an assembled group or (indirectly) from a readership, audience, etc. Frequently in anyone for ——?: ‘does anybody want (or know) ——?’, ‘is there any interest in ——?’ Later also used to suggest that a specified phenomenon (denoted by the immediately preceding word) is new, unfamiliar, or outlandish: ‘would you believe?’ ΚΠ 1868 J. W. Kirton One Thousand Temperance Anecd. & Facts 68 Still you may hear voices calling aloud,—Anyone for Pledge-Street? 1906 Temple Bar May 419 At last the cry rang out, ‘Anyone for the shore?’..and a general rising and stampede took place. 1953 J. van Druten Playwright at Work viii. 99 You will emerge with something as unreal as the juveniles in plays..impertinently swinging tennis rackets..with the remark: ‘Tennis, anyone?’ 1994 Interzone Sept. 60/3 It would appear that a whole new sub-genre is in its birth throes. Faeriepunk, anyone? 2003 N. Slater Toast 28 ‘Anyone for jam?’ she would say. < as lemmas |
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