| 单词 | how —— can you get? |
| 释义 | > as lemmashow —— can you get? b. how —— can you get?: a colloquial phrase implying that the person referred to has an extreme amount or an excess of the quality described by the adjective. ΚΠ 1948 Washington Post 14 Nov. r9/2 Membership in the Fourth Estate's ‘How Wrong Can You Get?’ club is hereby extended to Stanton Kolb. 1951 H. Wouk Caine Mutiny vii. 488 How unconscious can you get? Don't you know to-day's Navy Day? 1966 ‘A. Garve’ Murderer's Fen ii. iii. 84 Damn it, the writer himself admits he isn't sure.—How vague can you get? 1967 J. Fleming No Bones about It 80 Ben! How old-fashioned can you get? 1968 ‘P. Hobson’ Titty's Dead xii. 125 There's been an affair... And I never twigged it. How dim can you get? 2000 R. Buss tr. E. Zola Drinking Den (2003) vii. 210 ‘Oh, the dirty devil!’ the ladies exclaimed. ‘How disgusting can you get!’ < as lemmas |
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