| 单词 | a fat lot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa fat lot c. a fat lot: a large amount, a great deal: always ironical and implying ‘very little, hardly anything’. Similarly a fat chance, implying ‘hardly any opportunity (or possibility)’; also (New Zealand) a fat show. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > very little no (none) such1579 next to nothing1596 a fat lot1892 not such (a)1896 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > improbability, unlikeliness > [noun] > remote chance a hundred to one1647 a million to one1678 long odds1764 long shot1796 off-chance1844 long chance1854 outside chance1867 a fat chance1892 to have a Chinaman's chance1915 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto (1893) i. ii. 24 ‘I von't sell you no more tickets,’ said Sugarman... ‘A fat lot I care,’ said Becky, tossing her curls. 1899 C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle i. 5 Shows what a fat lot of influence this État du Congo has got. 1906 F. Metcalfe Side Show Studies 99 The Proprietor..suggested sending the announcement..to the papers. ‘A fat chance I'd stand of having it printed,’ he grumbled. 1908 ‘I. Hay’ Right Stuff vi. 83 Rot! Fat lot you know about it, Dilly. 1914 D. H. Lawrence Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd iii. 72 Some women could have lived with him happy enough. An' a fat lot you'd have thanked me for my telling. 1916 J. S. Clouston Two's Two ix. 69 ‘And a fat lot of good they'll be!’ scoffed Archibald. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt v. 63 Fat chance! 1933 W. S. Maugham Sheppey iii. 75 Fat chance I've got of going to France now. 1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas viii. 88 A fat chance, of course. I should have known his psychology better. 1947 A. Vogt in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 374 The men from the mill..had a fat chance of getting in [to the pub] before that [6 p.m.]. 1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams i. xii. 70 It would be corker if he could go outside with Carole Plowman... Fat show! 1951 E. Coxhead One Green Bottle i. 23 Idiot, thought Cathy. Fat lot you know. 1962 Coast to Coast 1961–2 87 You're a fat lot of help to me, moping about alone all the time. 1967 B. Wright tr. R. Queneau Between Blue & Blue xix. 208 Fat lot of use it was me getting my posterior frozen for a whole night to do my host a favour. < as lemmas |
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