英语词汇“i can do it on my head”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) In various expressions used to indicate or boast that something can be done easily. Esp. in I can do it (standing) on my head.Originally chiefly used by criminals to boast that a punishment can be endured easily or without hardship.

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1842 Bradford Observer 25 Aug. 3/4 Prisoner: How long is it to my trial?—Town Clerk: Two months.—Prisoner: Oh! I can stand on my head that long, and whistle the charter through a window.

1849 Sunday Times 15 July 6/2 Mr. Combe..ordered him to pay 10l, the value, or, in default of payment, six month's imprisonment in the House of Correction, with hard labour. Prisoner (laughing):—Thank ye, I can do that upon my head with ease, or more.

1859 Calif. Police Gaz. 17 Apr. 1/3 Ten years is nothing,—we can stand on our heads for that time.

1901 Portsmouth Evening News 28 Aug. 4/1 When Holbein reached the French Coast..there was a slight lip on the water... He remarked ‘This isn't anything like so bad as the Solent, and I think I can do it on my head’.

1951 Control Narcotics, Marihuana, & Barbiturates: Hearings before Subcomm. of Comm. on Ways & Means (U.S. House of Representatives, 82nd Congr., 1st Sess.) 67 Violators usually get a year and a day, and they say ‘I could do that standing on my head.’ I have heard that so many times.

2012 J. Erdal Missing Shade of Blue xvii. 101 He had polished the jokes, cut out the fat. Now he could give them standing on his head.

单词	i can do it on my head
释义	> as lemmas I can do it (standing) on my head (b) In various expressions used to indicate or boast that something can be done easily. Esp. in I can do it (standing) on my head.Originally chiefly used by criminals to boast that a punishment can be endured easily or without hardship. ΚΠ 1842 Bradford Observer 25 Aug. 3/4 Prisoner: How long is it to my trial?—Town Clerk: Two months.—Prisoner: Oh! I can stand on my head that long, and whistle the charter through a window. 1849 Sunday Times 15 July 6/2 Mr. Combe..ordered him to pay 10l, the value, or, in default of payment, six month's imprisonment in the House of Correction, with hard labour. Prisoner (laughing):—Thank ye, I can do that upon my head with ease, or more. 1859 Calif. Police Gaz. 17 Apr. 1/3 Ten years is nothing,—we can stand on our heads for that time. 1901 Portsmouth Evening News 28 Aug. 4/1 When Holbein reached the French Coast..there was a slight lip on the water... He remarked ‘This isn't anything like so bad as the Solent, and I think I can do it on my head’. 1951 Control Narcotics, Marihuana, & Barbiturates: Hearings before Subcomm. of Comm. on Ways & Means (U.S. House of Representatives, 82nd Congr., 1st Sess.) 67 Violators usually get a year and a day, and they say ‘I could do that standing on my head.’ I have heard that so many times. 2012 J. Erdal Missing Shade of Blue xvii. 101 He had polished the jokes, cut out the fat. Now he could give them standing on his head. extracted from headn.¹ < as lemmas
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