| 单词 | never to look back |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnever (also not) to look back 5. intransitive. colloquial. never (also not) to look back: to continue in one's course, esp. to enjoy uninterrupted progress or success, following some significant incident, decision, etc. Cf. never (also not) to look behind one at Phrases 1a(f). ΚΠ 1846 J. M. Gully Water Cure in Chronic Dis. ii. i. 182 She has never ‘looked back’, but has gone on from good to better. 1893 Daily News 5 Jan. 3/6 Since that day St. Simon has never, to use a slang phrase of the day, ‘looked back.’ 1928 Observer 17 June 27/4 Since they adopted the bold experiment..of changing the date of their regatta..Marlow Amateur Regatta has never looked back. 1949 Radio Times 15 July 17/1 Jules Verne..wrote Five Weeks in a Balloon, scored an immediate success, and never looked back. 1970 Motor Boating Sept. 71 (advt.) If you've owned other outboards, sample the new Mercs. You'll never look back. 1998 Today's Golfer 10th Anniv. Special 20/2 Super Mex hasn't looked back since stepping onto the US Senior PGA Tour stage in 1990. 2006 H. O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals 173 I left home at fifteen, I never looked back. < as lemmas |
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