| 单词 | i'll buy it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasI'll buy it a. transitive. British colloquial. To be prepared to listen to (a story, explanation, etc.). Originally and chiefly in I'll buy it: ‘I'll accept your explanation’; (contextually, in reply to a question, riddle, etc.) ‘I give up’; ‘I don't know, but tell me the answer’. ΚΠ 1919 A. Greening Better Yarn xiv. 221 ‘Suppose I went into the grocer's with a bob, and came out with fifteen eggs, what would they be?’ ‘Go ahead.., I'll buy it; what would they be?’ ‘Rotten!’ 1926 E. Wallace More Educated Evans vi. 139 ‘It's rather early in the day for fairy-tales,’ he said, ‘but I'll buy this one.’ 1932 D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase xi. 128 I'll buy it, Inspector. What did he do with it? 1957 P. Frankau Bridge 136 ‘Confession coming,’ he said. ‘I'll buy it. Something that happened last night?’ 2011 G. Kent Devil-devil xvii. 119 ‘I think’, said Kella carefully.., ‘that Senda Iabuli might have been murdered twice.’... ‘All right,’ he said, ‘I'll buy it. What was that supposed to mean? How could anyone be killed twice?’ < as lemmas |
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