单词 | if i've told you once, i've told you a hundred times |
释义 | > as lemmasif I've told you once, I've told you a hundred times c. if I've told you once, I've told you a hundred times and variants: chiefly as a hyperbolical expression for the frequency with which one has repeated something. ΚΠ 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. xv. 283 If I have spoke once to Rebecca about that carpet, I am sure I have spoke at least a dozen times. View more context for this quotation 1874 L. Troubridge Jrnl. 29 Oct. in Life Amongst Troubridges (1966) 97 I am glad to say some new evening gowns were ordered... If I have worn that old black once I have worn it a hundred times. 1954 ‘M. Cost’ Invitation from Minerva 250 If I've told you once, I've told you a hundred times. 1994 C. Grant X-Files: Goblins ix. 101 He never listened to me, you know. I told him once, I told him a hundred times to stay home.., but he never listened. 1999 T. Parsons Man & Boy (2000) xv. 127 If you can do it once, you can do it a thousand times. < as lemmas |
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