| 单词 | as pleased as punch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas pleased (also proud, etc.) as Punch b. as pleased (also proud, etc.) as Punch: extremely pleased, proud, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > [adjective] > extremely or excessively proud overproudOE mad-proudc1450 Luciferine1543 Luciferousc1554 Luciferian?1570 top-proud1623 fastuose1674 as pleased (also proud, etc.) as Punch1796 as proud as Lucifer1839 the mind > emotion > pleasure > [adjective] > pleased or filled with pleasure > extremely pleased well-apaidc1300 well-pleased1423 as pleased (also proud, etc.) as Punch1796 1796 T. W. Tone Diary 18 July in Writings (2009) II. 243 I am as proud as Punch! Who would have thought this the day I left the Lough of Belfast? 1797 in W. Gifford Baviad & Mæviad (new ed.) 126 Oh! how my fingers itch to pull thy nose! As pleased as Punch, I'd hold it in my gripe. 1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris vi. 82 Give me the useful peaching Rat; Not things as mute as Punch, when bought. 1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield li. 520 I am as proud as Punch to think that I once had the honor of being connected with your family. 1873 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 102 I am as pleased as Punch at the thought of having a kind of denizenship, if nothing more, at Oxford. 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 287 I was proud as Punch, for then I was trusted..to ride a journey by my own little self. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xiv. 242 She wanted me, and made no bones about it. And I was as pleased as punch. 1959 Times 11 Sept. 10/1 (advt.) There's a new kind of Fibreglass and we're pleased as Punch about it! 1995 P. McCabe Dead School (1996) 2 Off he went, proud as punch, another good day's work behind him. < as lemmas |
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