单词 | no more than the man in the moon |
释义 | > as lemmasno more than the man in the moon b. no more than the man in the moon and variants: no more than anyone, not at all. ΚΠ 1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Pardoner & Frere sig. Biiiv I desyred hym..To holde the peas, tyll that I had done But he wolde here no more than the man in the mone. 1572 Abp. M. Parker Let. 5 Nov. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 404 He is no more my kinsman than the man in the moon. 1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. C2v Which he knows no more then the Man in the Moon. 1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer iv. 49 I know more than you, Friend—You have a foolish Saying, that such a one knows no more than the Man-in-the-Moon. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 314 I thought no more of being serious..than I thought of being a Man in the Moon. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. vii. 53 I declare, quoth my uncle, I know no more which it is, than the man in the moon. 1805 A. A. Opie Adeline Mowbray I. ii. 30 We knew no more of the stars and planets, than the man in the moon. 1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) I. 19 How my little bit of dinner slides itself down my throat, I know no more than a man in the moon. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. xiii. 220 As to all the higher questions.., any glimmering of these can only come from a scientific culture of which country practitioners have usually no more notion than the man in the moon. 1995 P. McCabe Dead School (1996) 200 Tonight she was watching Coronation Street and he was sitting beside her but he was no more interested in Coronation Street than the man in the moon. < as lemmas |
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