| 单词 | anything but |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanything but Phrases P1. anything else: any other thing; anything in addition or as an alternative. Cf. nothing else at nothing pron., n., adv., and int. Phrases 1b. ΚΠ OE Glosses to Memoriale of Benedict of Aniane in A. S. Napier Enlarged Rule of Chrodegang (1916) 126 Quando prior benedicit cibum uel potum, uel aliquid quicquam, non sedendo sed stando benedicat : þonne se ealdor bletsað mete oððe drencg oððe ænig þing elles na sittende ac standende he bletsie. c1460 Tree & 12 Frutes (McClean) (1960) 7 (MED) Ȝif þou yn-wardly considere þees þinges, þou shalt raþer list wepe þan do any þing ellis. 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. Tract viii. v. §13 Here is neither scripture, doctor, story, council, or anything else. 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World iii. xliv. §28. 227/2 Muskets..to shoot Bullets without Powder, or anything else but..Air compressed in the bore of it. 1743 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. p. iii Rice Land [in Carolina] is..only productive of that grain, it being too wet for anything else. 1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 213/1 In the four million families where washing is being done this morning, the number who use anything else than the old wash-board, is..small. 1952 V. Canning House of Seven Flies iii. 53 Charlie had ventured too far in search of black market vino, prosciutto and anything else he could lay his hands on. 1986 L. A. Lemaître Between Flight & Longing ii. 65 Asking nonchalantly for the issue containing her story, she was told,..‘That's sold out! Would you like anything else?’ 2011 Independent 29 Mar. (Viewspaper section) 4/5 Here is the true face of Cameronism. Big business matters more than anything else. P2. anything like: (with noun) in any way like; in any way similar (†to); (in other constructions) in any way approaching; by any means. Cf. something like at something adv. 3.Frequently in negative contexts (cf. nothing like at nothing pron., n., adv., and int. Phrases 5a). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > degree or relative amount of a quality, action, etc. > degree or relative amount [phrase] > in any degree or at all anything like1529 with least or most1575 with least or most1575 for any sake1824 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters i. xviii. f. xxiii/1 The lawes of Cryste..bee not in hardnes & dyffyculte of kepyng any thyng lyke to the lawes of Moyses. 1625 J. Layfield in S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. vi. iii. 1172 Their Pines are in shape like a Pine-apple,..but neither in feeling or taste are they any thing like. 1647 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Little French Lawyer ii. i. 59 Can you pretend an excuse now may absolve you, Or any thing like honest, to bring you off? 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. xxi. 436 I demand concerning these, and what-ever else looks any thing like either an Antichristian Imposition or Imposture, [etc.]. 1786 T. Mortimer tr. J. Necker Treat. Admin Finances France (ed. 2) II. i. 28 We must now estimate the savings on the charges; they would not be any thing like so considerable as it is generally imagined. 1793 J. Bentham Wks. (1843) x. 239 The £600 a-year..I do not look upon as anything like adequate. 1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 6 Aug. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1988) V. 54 The N. W. or rapid fork..dose not at all seasons of the year supply any thing like as much water as the other. 1860 Punch 8 Dec. 223/1 Labourers on their estates are..perhaps not anything like so well fed as the Stevensone fox hounds. 1875 J. O'Rourke Hist. Great Irish Famine vii. 196 To have met the Potato Famine with anything like complete success, would have been a Herculean task for any government. 1914 Black Cat Oct. 28/1 Do I look anything like a burglar? Being a policeman you ought to know the breed. 1957 New Scientist 12 Sept. 42/3 Scientists do not go in, in anything like sufficient numbers, for civic or political work. 2009 Guardian Unlimited (Nexis) 16 Sept. The new and recent evidence..cannot be mitigated anything like so easily. P3. (as) — as anything. a. Very, extremely, or extraordinarily —; (as) — as can be. colloquial in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely like mada1375 with a mischief1538 (as) — as anything1542 with a vengeance1568 with a siserary1607 (to be pleased) to a feathera1616 in (the) extremea1616 with the vengeance1693 to a degree1740 like hell1776 like the devil1791 like winky1830 like billy-o1885 (like) seven shades of ——1919 like a bandit1943 on wheels1943 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 29v Thesame maiden..daunced without any feare at all emong sweardes and kniues, beeyng as sharp as any thyng. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads ii. 32 [He] thought To take Troy now as sure as any thing. 1698 T. D'Urfey Campaigners Pref. 11 To call 'em Colliers would be as significant as any thing. 1736 H. Walpole Lett. (1861) I. 8 A disconsolate wood-pigeon in our grove..is so allicholly as any thing. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 58 I fear your Girl will grow as proud as any thing. 1841 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker New Ser. viii. 71 She keeps a-sayin'—Well, he's a witch!..now I never! do tell!—as pleased all the time as anything. 1909 A. A. Milne in Punch 16 June 420/1 I feel as fit as anything this morning. I'm absolutely safe for a century. 1965 F. Raphael Darling xviii. 83 The soft toys were cuddlesome as anything. 2009 Star (Sheffield) (Nexis) 20 Nov. He was daft as anything and soft as a brush. b. As — as any comparable thing; as — as any alternative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > in comparison with [phrase] in (the) (also to the) reward of1340 (as) to or unto the regard of or toa1400 at (the) regard ofa1400 in regard ofa1400 in regard toa1400 in respect ofc1400 in respect to1526 (as) — as anything1548 come1925 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke i. f. xviiv As the fruitfulnesse of matrimonie was reputed for a certayne thyng of great Royaltie: so was barainnesse in as muche reproche as any thing. 1678 H. More Let. 25 May 5 in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) It was, and sometimes yet is, as much discoursed of in the North-Countrey, as any thing. 1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 52. 414 What has given me as much trouble as any thing, has been the multitude of little improvements in the most diminutive articles of ordinary use. 1867 Macmillan's Mag. June 114/1 I consider Mayduke cherries as fine as anything. 1928 Daily Express 11 Aug. 4/2 On Dartmoor streams..I found a small alder and a black gnat as effective as anything. 2011 Sc. Sun (Nexis) 23 June 62 Putting is a mental thing and a change is as good as anything because I can't putt any worse. P4. anything much: a great amount; anything significant or of importance. Frequently in negative constructions. Cf. nothing much at nothing pron., n., adv., and int. Phrases 11. ΚΠ 1664 W. Drage Physical Nosonomy 67 Nor is any thing much to be attributed to the colour or consistence of an Humour. 1743 Daily Gaz. 17 Nov. Her Intrigues with these Courts can never produce any Thing much for her Service. 1859 Child's Compan. & Juvenile Instructor (Religious Tract Soc.) 39 Amy was too weary to notice anything much, or to care about it if she had. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. v, in Mod. Comedy (1929) 637 I expect he's too young to be conscious of anything much except being thoroughly uncomfy. 1958 A. Sillitoe Loneliness Long Distance Runner 21 When the dough ran out I didn't think about anything much, but just roamed the streets. 2008 P. Hensher Northern Clemency 7 She didn't say anything much. They've got two children, nine, and a fourteen-year-old girl, I think she said. P5. anything near: nearly, anywhere near; in any way.Often in negative contexts (cf. nothing near at nothing pron., n., adv., and int. Phrases 5b, near adv.2 3). ΚΠ 1665 R. Boyle Let. 23 Dec. in Corr. (2001) II. 607 Diurnalls are the only printed things that have any thing near as quick & generall a Vent as formerly. 1720 E. Calamy Discontented Complaints prov'd Unreasonable (ed. 2) 14 It must be own'd that we are not any Thing near so well acquainted with former Times as with our own. 1757 Biographia Britannica IV. 2235 I think no other reformed Church of Christendom any thing near comparable unto it. 1845 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 5 June 411/3 We have not anything near enough surplus labour in the country, to accomplish this work in the time. 1879 T. M. Cooley Treat. Law Taxation xix. 409 The result will fail to come anything near a verification of the calculations. 1923 G. Collins Valley of Eyes Unseen i. 29 Neither blow was a true king hit, however, and neither Chink was anything near knocked out. 1982 G. Frost & Y. Frost Astral Trav. (1986) viii. 143 I've only got one other case that's anything near as good as this one. 2010 W. Powers Hamlet's Blackberry ii. v. 88 Not anything near as busy as today's cities but, by the standards of their time, busy indeed. P6. like anything: to a great or extraordinary degree; very much, fast, well, etc. Formerly also †like to anything. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy with (also in) mood and maineOE vigour13.. with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330 with (one's) forcec1380 like anything1665 hammer and tongs1708 like stour1787 (in) double tides1788 like blazes1818 like winking1827 with a will1827 like winky1830 like all possessed1833 in a big way1840 like (or worse than) sin1840 full swing1843 like a Trojan1846 like one o'clock1847 like sixty1848 like forty1852 like wildfire1857 like old boots1865 like blue murder1867 like steam1905 like stink1929 like one thing1938 like a demon1945 up a storm1953 1665 R. Monsey Scarronides 31 Up stairs they run unto the King, And here they fight like any thing. ?1670 Poor Robins Observ. upon Whitsun-holidays (single sheet) When merry catches they do sit and sing, And love each other like to anything. 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love v. i. 81 I have been looking up and down for you like any thing. 1769 S. Gunning Hermit I. xii. 155 I to be sure, Madam, was quite daunted, and blushed like any thing. 1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xxi. 157 All the people in the pit are without hats, dressed like any thing. 1864 Eton School Days ii. 21 That building on the right is Tuggery, where the Tug-Muttons live; you'll hate the Tugs like anything. 1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass iv. 73 They wept like anything to see Such quantities of sand. 1938 J. Grenfell Let. 18 Dec. in Darling Ma (1989) 81 He and R. got on like anything. 2010 Metro (Scotl. ed.) (Nexis) 10 Nov. 54 We must put New Zealand under pressure when they've got the ball and fight like anything to get it back. P7. anything but. a. By no means; not at all. (a) Modifying a predicate. ΚΠ 1788 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 59/1 Elgin is any thing but that most elegant and laboured Gothic building in all the North. 1850 W. Wordsworth Prelude x. 279 Grief call it not, 'twas anything but that. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxix. 320 His being higher in learning and birth than the ruck of soldiers is anything but a proof of his worth. 1904 Agitator (Wellsboro, Pa.) 13 July 4/5 The engine is anything but modern. 1954 J. Thompson Nothing Man v. 47 I told them..that you were anything but a nympho but also very far from frigid. 1998 I. de la Bere Last Deception Palliser Wentwood ix. 239 He was anything but disinterested. (b) Modifying an attributive adjective or adverb, or occasionally a noun. Usually with hyphens. ΚΠ 1831 London Lit. Gaz. 26 Mar. 204/2 The anything but Sigh-amese twins. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 1 Oct. 2/1 The anything-but-particular denominationalists. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Feb. 106/2 Richard Roe, the posthumous anything-but-hero. 2000 Guardian 22 Apr. i. 16/1 We wallow in our subjecthood, unable to break free from an anything-but-United Kingdom. b. With anaphoric reference: quite the reverse of (the previously stated thing). ΚΠ 1944 S. E. H. Beach Amabel & Mary Verena i. 12 ‘It sounds as if you were not altogether a Christian young gentleman.’ ‘Anything but.’ 1960 News Chron. 27 July 4/2 The aspirin age needed its drugs largely because the fair sex tried so hard to look anything but. 1994 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 July d1 That sounds typically museumish, but the annual festivities that emerged were anything but. 2008 Independent 19 Mar. (Property section) 5/1 If the term itself..sounds comical, its effects are anything but. P8. or anything: or any other (similar) thing; or anything else. Used as a substitute for a longer or more specific description. Cf. or something at something n. 1f.Often acting simply as a conversational filler. ΚΠ 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. ix. 166 I did not once put my foot out of doors... Not one party, or scheme, or any thing . View more context for this quotation 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. iii. 36 How soft it is—being winter time, too—not chapped or rough, or anything! 1906 J. M. Synge Lett. to Molly (1971) 50 Dont imagine I'm huffed or anything, little heart, I'm only weary. 1969 G. Chapman et al. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1989) I. iii. 30 They're not even married or anything, they're not even divorced. 2005 L. Dean This Human Season (2006) xxx. 191 I'm not stupid or anything, I'm just more of a doer than a thinker. P9. colloquial. too —— for anything: extremely, excessively ——. Cf. too —— for words at word n. and int. Phrases 1d. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely or excessively out of (also over, without) measure1340 with a pestilence1594 too —— for anything?a1832 ?a1832 F. Trollope Notebks. in Domest. Manners Amer. (1949) App. A. 428 Too hot for anything. Too bad for anything. 1835 Finesse I. xiii. 213 Never saw such a flirtation in my life—I declare it is too bad for any thing. 1894 J. C. Harris in Los Angeles Times 23 Dec. 21/5 The young lady said I was too prissy for anything. 1925 G. K. Chesterton Tales of Long Bow viii. 281 ‘Really,’ she said, laughing, ‘you are too ridiculous for anything.’ P10. U.S. colloquial. he (she, etc.) didn't do anything else: (as a strong affirmation of a preceding question or statement) ‘that's exactly what he, she, etc., did’. Now rare. ΚΠ 1845 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) 17 Nov. 1/4 What did our hero do but court and marry her. ‘He didn't do anything else!’ and is now in possession of the whole fortune. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) at Any thing else Loco Foco. Didn't Gen. Cass get mad at Hull's cowardice, and break his sword? Whig. He didn't do anything else. 1886 Anglers' Jrnl. 3 July 322/1 ‘By the Lord Harry, Jed, did you shoot the Colonel's horse?’ ‘I didn't do anything else.’ 1905 Dial. Notes 3 2 ‘He didn't do anything else’, meaning he did just that. P11. anything goes: see go v. 17b(a). if anything: see if conj. 5. if anything should happen and variants: see happen v. 1b(a). < as lemmas |
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