| 单词 | in one's puff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (all) one's (born) puff g. colloquial (originally and chiefly British). Life; span or length of life; esp. in in (all) one's (born) puff: in a person's experience, in all a person's life (chiefly in negative contexts).With in all one's born puff cf. one's born days at born adj. Phrases 8. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [adverb] > in one's life all my (his, etc.) lifeOE lifelong1868 in (all) one's (born) puff1872 the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life life-dayOE year-daysOE timeOE dayOE lifeOE life's timeOE livelihoodOE yearOE lifetimea1300 life-whilea1300 for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325 coursec1384 livingc1390 voyage1390 agea1398 life's dayc1425 thread1447 racea1450 living daysc1450 natural life1461 lifeness1534 twist1568 leasec1595 span1599 clew1615 marcha1625 peregrination1653 clue1684 stamen1701 life term1739 innings1772 lifelong1814 pass-through1876 inning1885 natural1891 life cycle1915 puff1967 1872 Entomologist's Monthly Mag. 9 141 I niver seed such an a [sic] beast afore i' all my puff. 1921 H. Jenkins Mrs. Bindle ii. 51 Never seen 'er so cheerio in all my puff. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 330 You never saw the like of it in all your born puff. 1929 P. G. Wodehouse Mr. Mulliner Speaking ix. 301 ‘Did you ever see a hat like that, Stinker?’ ‘Never in my puff,’ replied his friend. 1967 A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in Eng. iv. 226 Hannah Snell..served for years as a marine..took a public house in Wapping and wore trousers for the rest of her puff. 1998 A. Warner Sopranos 91 Manda Tassy, never seen a black and white movie in her puff. < as lemmas |
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