单词 | in the same breath |
释义 | > as lemmasin (also with) the same breath P3. in (also at, with) one breath, in (also with) the same breath, and variants: without pausing to take a breath; inhaling or exhaling only once. Also figurative: in the same statement or context; at the same time (frequently used to imply that a statement contains conflicting ideas or associates dissimilar people or things). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adverb] on (or in) one sitheeOE togethersc1175 togetherc1200 at once?c1225 at one shiftc1325 jointly1362 at one strokec1374 with that ilkec1390 at one shipea1400 withc1440 at a timec1485 at (in) one (an) instant1509 all at a shove1555 pari passu1567 in (also at, with) one breath1590 in that ilkec1590 with the same1603 in one1616 concurrently1648 concurringly1650 contemporarily1669 simultaneously1675 synchronistically1684 coevallya1711 in (also with) the same breath1721 synchronically1749 at a slap1753 synchronously1793 contemporaneously1794 coinstantaneously1807 coetaneouslya1817 consentaneously1817 at one or a sweep1834 coincidentally1837 at the very nonce1855 one time1873 coincidently1875 in parallel1969 real time1993 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 357 He ran a furlong at oon breeþ [L. uno anhelitu]. 1590 J. Greenwood Answere Giffords Def. 13 Your vnstablenes in denying and affirming with one breath. 1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. iv. 65 Sow-thistle.., whose downy wreath, If any one can blow off at a breath, We deeme her for a Maide. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. xii. 49 Thou swallowest at one breath Both food and poyson down. 1721 J. Trenchard & T. Gordon 4th Coll. Cato's Polit. Lett. in London Jrnl. 40 The same worthy, but waggish Pens, represent him with the same Breath, as an abandon'd Atheist, and a bigotted Presbyterian. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iii. 19 Shooting out whatever she had to say in one sentence, and in one breath, if possible. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 564 The Chroniclers speak of it in the same breath with the election of Harold, as if they were both alike popular acts. 1967 Economist 18 Mar. 1008/2 Both Scotland and Wales could in time do well. But the start of their national lives would be bleak... One cannot take seriously the present Nats who advocate freedom and promise prosperity in one breath. 2006 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) Mar. 14/2 The [Yukon] Quest has been called both a grassroots and world class race in the same breath. < as lemmas |
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