| 单词 | a mere circumstance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa mere (or remote, poor) circumstance c. In U.S. colloquial phrases: not a circumstance to, nothing in comparison with; a mere (or remote, poor) circumstance, a person or thing of little or no importance. ΚΠ 1836 Crockett's Yaller Flower Almanac 19 Orson, the wild man of the woods, is nothing to him—not a circumstance. 1838 E. Flagg Far West I. 145 The race of John Gilpin or of Alderman Purdy were, either or both of them, mere circumstances to ours. c1840 in Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) II. 969 I'm a little specimen, as you see, a remote circumstance, a mere yearling. 1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. v. 284 O, it an't a circumstance to what it used to be. 1899 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. (1914) Dec. 10/1 Next comes King John, and he was a poor circumstance. 1901 W. N. Harben Westerfelt xvi. 219 ‘Mother told me he often drove you out home.’ ‘Oh, la, that ain't a circumstance, Harriet! He used to come out home mighty nigh every day or night.’ 1903 Nation (N.Y.) 1 Oct. 258 Undigested securities are not a circumstance to undigested political principles. < as lemmas |
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