单词 | no such animal |
释义 | > as lemmas(there is) no such animal P1. (there is) no such animal: (there is) no such person or (in later use) thing. ΚΠ 1766 E. Carter Let. in Memoirs (1807) 476 None are ever fools but by a voluntary act of their own choice. There is no such animal as a fool in nature. 1802 J. Skene Diary 15 Sept. in Ital. Journey (1937) 1 A melancholy Frenchman!—There is no such animal. 1809 A. Burr Let. 5 July in Private Jrnl. (1838) I. 246 No such animal, according to English ideas of a lawyer, in Sweden! 1851 Times 12 Mar. 8/4 As for a ‘friendly’ Caffre..No such animal exists, except in the minds of silly missionaries. 1922 E. F. Murphy Black Candle ii. xxii. 322 I would like to ask these same ‘old-timers’ ‘how many square shooting addicts have you found in your experience?’ I can hear them roar and say ‘There is no such animal’. 1963 Times Rev. Industry May 85/1 Computer makers would therefore have us believe that there is no such animal as a typical programmer. 2002 Backwoods Home Mag. Nov. 74/3 If by homesteading, they mean free land, there ain't no such animal and never was. < as lemmas |
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