| 单词 | no prizes for guessing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasno prizes for guessing (also spotting, etc.) —— e. chiefly British. no prizes for guessing (also spotting, etc.) —— and variants: used to indicate that what is expressed by the following phrase or clause is very obvious or too obvious to be worth mentioning. ΚΠ 1947 Chicago Tribune 10 Aug. g8 There is no prize offered for guessing what happened next. 1952 Times 14 Oct. 2/6 (advt.) No prizes for spotting the cause of this monkey business! 1981 L. R. Banks Writing on Wall vi. 51 No prizes for guessing how I felt about getting up for school. 1994 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 22 July 6 b No one will win any prizes for guessing that what hurt the funds' performance most was the sharp fall in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. 2004 Stardust (Internat. ed.) June 115 Just when you think that the name has exhausted its star power, yet another wannashine emerges and there are no prizes for guessing the name he goes by. < as lemmas |
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