| 单词 | a pretty deal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa pretty deal a. Considerable, sizeable. a pretty many, †a pretty deal (obsolete): a good many, a good deal. Cf. pretty adv. 1, fair adj. 5.Cf. a pretty penny at penny n. Phrases 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > considerable in amount or degree goodeOE fairOE goodlyc1275 largea1375 no littlea1413 substantial1413 unleast?1440 prettya1475 reasonablea1500 substantious1545 substantive1575 sensible1581 pretty and ——1596 goody1597 greatish1611 considerable1651 sonsy1721 respectable1736 smart1750 quite a little ——1763 gey1796 smartish1799 canny1805 serious1810 right smart1825 dunnamuch1831 snug1833 tidy1839 bonnyish1855 largish1872 a nice little ——1891 significant1898 healthy1901 beaucoup1917 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount > (a) considerable amount a pretty deala1475 a good sup1601 might1834 right smart1842 mittful1918 a1475 Dis. Hawk (Harl. 2340) f. 35, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Prati(e For A hawke þat may not caste, gyfe hyr halowynsicatre þe quantite of A praty castyng. a1475 in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 88 Caste in your colours that schalbe rede afore a prety whyle, and..let hem boyle togedyris. 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 106 Their bowes be short, and of a prettie strength. 1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 8 Swine also they have in prety number. 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xii. 208 With a pretty strength press the middle of one end of your Work. 1761 G. James Descr. S. Carolina 63 There are a pretty many Indians among the Kays, about the Cape of Florida. 1790 J. Beekman Let. 4 Dec. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1213 He..was obliged to take Bonds of People who were possessed of pretty Property, assuring him that it was absolutely out of their power to perform their Promises. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. i. 5 The transfer of his commission, which brought a pretty sum into his pocket. 1894 ‘A. Hope’ Prisoner of Zenda i. 9 Prince Rudolf..was adroitly smuggled off by the Ruritanian ambassador, who had found him a pretty handful. 1932 New Eng. Q. 5 300 Partridge had a ‘pretty deal of discourse’ with ‘our hearty friend, Oglethorpe’. 1990 C. R. Johnson Middle Passage (1991) v. 102 Most nations will pay a pretty whack to possess a creature such as this. 2005 Financial Times (Nexis) 6 Aug. (Outdoors section) 5 I'd bet a pretty sum that there are more cute china animals and quaint loo signs for sale per head of population than anywhere in England. < as lemmas |
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