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单词 as right as my leg
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as right (also straight) as my leg
a. as right (also straight) as my leg: in good condition, in good order; spec. correct, accurate, true. Obsolete.
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1636 J. Taylor Coaches Overthrow (single sheet) The Sick, the Weake, the Lame also, a Coach for ease might beg: When they on foot might lightly goe, that are as Right's my Leg.
1664 J. Wilson Cheats ii. iv. 26 T. T. All's well, and as right as my Leg. Bil. And that's crooked to my knowledge.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 141 Her bald-pate did look like an Ostrich's Egg, This Lady (thought I) is as right as my Leg.
1738 J. Swift Treat. Polite Conversat. i. 38 Lady Answ. But, Mr. Neverout, I wonder why such a handsome strait young Gentleman as you, does not get some rich Widow. Lord Sp. Strait! ay, strait as my Leg, and that's crooked at Knee.
1793 M. Pilkington Rosina III. xii. 88 Right, my old Holefernes! (exclaimed Richard, clapping him on the back in an ecstacy,) right as my leg!
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