| 单词 | as the saying is |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas the saying is (also goes, went) P2. as the saying is (also goes, went): used parenthetically to indicate that a statement is a proverb or well-known expression, and (now often) to draw attention to its status as a saying rather than part of one's normal language. ΚΠ 1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. lxxviij He shalbe cast oute of the courte or (as the sayenge is) conveyed to Callyce and made a captayne or an ambassadoure. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 19 You hit the naile on the head (as the saying is). 1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript ii. i. sig. N4 For thus the saying goes, and I hold so, Ignorance onely, is true wisedomes foe. 1668 T. Shadwell Sullen Lovers iv. 67 O rare how we shall cotten together, as the saying is. 1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves II. xvi. 77 One must live, and let live, as the saying is. 1838 Hesperian Nov. 12/1 As the saying goes, ‘words are the money of fools, and the counters of wise men.’ 1882 Cent. Mag. Apr. 884/2 [He] could draw to a shoe-string, as the saying went! 1949 F. Maclean Eastern Approaches iii. ix. 406 After that we mixed a delicious drink in the bath tub, and a good time, as the saying goes, was had by all. 1987 M. R. Higonnet & J. Jenson Behind Lines 11 The only problem with American GIs, so the saying went, was that they were ‘overpaid, oversexed, and over here’. 2014 Sunday News (Lancaster, Pa.) (Nexis) 5 Jan. c9 As the saying goes, ask and ye shall receive. < as lemmas |
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