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单词 neither top nor toe
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neither top nor toe
b. neither top nor toe: nothing definite or intelligible. Obsolete.In quot. 1862 in to make neither top nor toe of: to make no sense of.Cf. not to make top or bottom of at Phrases 4a(c), not to make top nor tail of at Phrases 3d.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [phrase] > nothing, no one, not any
never onec1175
never ac1300
never kinsc1300
no kinsc1350
for odd or evenc1425
never anyc1522
penny nor paternoster1528
never a one1534
not a soul1568
neither top nor toe1610
no flesh1663
neither horn nor hoof1664
no sort of‥1736
no nothing1815
1602 in R. Parsons Warn-word ii. xviii. f. 134 There was neyther head nor heele, top nor toe order nor coherence, but only a certayne loose inuectiue against all sort of Catholyke men and their religion.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Britain i. 269 There stood in old time a cittie, but now neither top nor toe, as they say remaineth of it.
1862 Birmingham Jrnl. 14 June 6/3 The chagrin engendered in the..Conservative body by inability to understand its wily and Protean-faced head; ever assuming a new aspect, whereof the spectator can make neither top nor toe.
extracted from topn.1adj.
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