单词 | if ever! |
释义 | > as lemmasif ever! d. colloquial. did you ever?: used elliptically for ‘did you ever see or hear the like?’; would you believe it? Similarly did anybody ever?, if ever!, was there ever?, who'd ever? Cf. well, I never! at never adv. and int. Phrases 3. Now rare. ΚΠ 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lxxxviii. 45 Did I ever? No, I never Saw a man grown so yellow! 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 150 ‘My stars!—well, if ever!’—wiping her fat hands very carefully. 1828 T. Creevey Let. 6 Dec. in J. Gore Creevey's Life & Times (1934) xiii. 294 Lady Louisa..believed Papa would not have come..if I had not been coming. Was there ever? 1840 Spirit of Times 21 Nov. 447/3 What a fib! did you ever? well, I never did hear the beat of that. 1844 G. E. Jewsbury Let. 24 June (1892) 136 He..found that the surgery-boy had..given calomel instead of ipecacuanha! Did you ever? 1854 J. E. Cooke Virginia Comedians I. xiv. 77 ‘Did anybody ever!’ said Miss Alethea. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. xvii. 294 So then, if they take us to task we can say, alack we knew nought; we thought no ill; now, who'd ever? and so forth. 1892 Peel City Guardian 23 Jan. 3/3 ‘And where is she now?’ ‘In a studio.’..‘Did you ever!’ said Mrs. Fanshaw. 1909 J. Masefield Trag. Nan iii, in Trag. Nan & Other Plays 61 Fifty pou-und. Fifty pou-und. Did you ever. 1939 C. A. Porter Well, did you evah? in Noel & Cole (1992) 183 Have you heard it's in the stars Next July we collide with Mars?..Well, did you evah! What a swell party this is. < as lemmas |
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