| 单词 | isn't something? |
| 释义 | > as lemmasisn't (that, he, etc.) something? f. Used in various phrases expressing admiration, as isn't (that, he, etc.) something?, to be really something; quite something: see quite adv., adj., and int. Phrases 4. ΚΠ 1958 B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties ii. 42 The Ritz Bar, in those days, really was something. 1967 M. Kenyon Whole Hog vii. 81 Isn't that something? So if they [sc. pigs] don't know you they're like interested? 1969 J. D. A. Widdowson & H. Halpert in H. Halpert & G. M. Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 161 Mummers were really something when I was a boy. If you wasn't afraid of them, you wasn't afraid of nothing when you was four or five. 1973 A. Christie Postern of Fate iii. x. 213 Perhaps it's something important... And so if they..tried to get whatever it was—that really would be something! 1977 ‘A. York’ Tallant for Trouble xi. 163 P. C. Abrahams presented arms..decked..out in full-dress white... ‘Oh, isn't he something,’ Jennie Kamm exclaimed. < as lemmas |
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