| 单词 | like nobody's business |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslike nobody's business b. Originally U.S. like nobody's business: to an extraordinary degree, in no ordinary way; very much, fast, well, etc.; ‘like anything’. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely > remarkable or extraordinary > remarkably or extraordinarily more than ordinary1560 and a half1636 out of (also beyond) (all) recognition1824 and how!1865 like nobody's business1930 1930 Boys' Life May 40/4 My arm was burning from the shoulder down, and the muscles were aching like nobody's business. 1938 P. G. Wodehouse Code of Woosters vii. 163 The fount of memory spouting like nobody's business. 1941 ‘N. Blake’ Case of Abominable Snowman xii. 132 Plays the piano like nobody's business. 1975 Times 20 Sept. 9/7 Poirot..adds..‘Never do I pull the leg.’ That, alas, is not true. He teased poor Hastings like nobody's business. 2003 L. Raphael German Money 117 Happens all the time. You're here, then you're gone [sc. dead] like nobody's business. Believe me, it's the best way to go. < as lemmas |
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