英语词汇“like the dickens”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. like the dickens: (used adverbially as an intensifier) with great speed, energy, violence, etc.

ΚΠ

1823 Weekly Visitor & Ladies' Museum 1 Mar. 279/2 We..got Uncle Long to get his horse and sleigh ready; bid the girls good-night, and started off like the dickens.

1892 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Mar. 241/2 My jacket caught in a branch and tore like the dickens.

1921 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 23 Mar. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 19 I worked like the dickens..and wrote twelve thousand words of the Sally novel.

1971 Ada (Okla.) Weekly News 12 Aug. 4/1 If there was ever a vegetable villain it is the turnip...It smells like the dickens while cooking.

2000 Newsweek (U.S. ed.) (Nexis) 8 May (Periscope section) 8 Black flies..get in under clothes, bite often and hurt like the dickens.

单词	like the dickens
释义	> as lemmas like the dickens b. like the dickens: (used adverbially as an intensifier) with great speed, energy, violence, etc. ΚΠ 1823 Weekly Visitor & Ladies' Museum 1 Mar. 279/2 We..got Uncle Long to get his horse and sleigh ready; bid the girls good-night, and started off like the dickens. 1892 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Mar. 241/2 My jacket caught in a branch and tore like the dickens. 1921 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 23 Mar. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 19 I worked like the dickens..and wrote twelve thousand words of the Sally novel. 1971 Ada (Okla.) Weekly News 12 Aug. 4/1 If there was ever a vegetable villain it is the turnip...It smells like the dickens while cooking. 2000 Newsweek (U.S. ed.) (Nexis) 8 May (Periscope section) 8 Black flies..get in under clothes, bite often and hurt like the dickens. extracted from dickensn. < as lemmas
随便看	θ35991 θ35992 θ35993 θ35994 θ35995 θ35996 θ35997 θ35998 θ35999 θ36 θ360 θ3600 θ36000 θ36001 θ36002 θ36003 θ36004 θ36005 θ36006 θ36007 θ36008 θ36009 θ3601 θ36010 θ36011

> as lemmas