| 单词 | not to be sneezed at |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to be sneezed at 2. colloquial. With at: To regard as of little value, worth, or consideration; to despise, disregard, underrate. Chiefly in the negative phrase not to be sneezed at. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] forhowc900 overhowOE withhuheOE forhecchec1230 scorna1275 despise1297 spise13.. to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee1303 to hold, have scorn at, ofc1320 to think scorn ofc1320 to set short by1377 to tell short of1377 to set naught or nought (nothing, not anything) by1390 spitea1400 contemnc1425 nought1440 overlooka1450 mainprizec1450 lightly1451 vilipendc1470 indeign1483 misprize1483 dain?1518 to look down on (also upon)1539 floccipend1548 contempta1555 to take scorn ata1566 embase1577 sdeign1590 disesteem1594 vilify1599 to set lightly, coldly1604 disrepute1611 to hold cheapa1616 avile1616 floccify1623 meprize1633 to think (also believe, etc.) meanly of1642 publican1648 naucify1653 disesteem1659 invalue1673 to set light, at light1718 sneeze1806 sniff1837 derry1896 to hold no brief for1918 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > misjudge [verb (transitive)] > underestimate or undervalue to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)c1395 disprize1480 misprize1483 to make light of1526 extenuate1529 to make the worst ofc1530 seclude?1531 to take (also wrest) to the worst1531 deprisec1550 disparagea1556 undermatch1571 embase1577 underbid1593 underprize1600 underpoise1602 undervalue1611 minorize1615 underspeak1635 underthink1646 underrate1650 minify1676 under-measure1682 underpraise1698 sneeze1806 understate1824 disappreciate1828 under-estimatea1850 minimize1866 to play down1869 worsen1885 to sell short1936 downplay1948 underplay1949 lowball1979 minimalize1979 (a) (b)1813 W. Scott Let. 24 Aug. (1932) III. 322 As I am situated, £300 or £400 a-year is not to be sneezed at.1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack l. 361 She was a prize ‘not to be sneezed at’.1891 N. Gould Double Event 82 A thousand pounds..was not a thing to be sneezed at.1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. iv. 90 It's a sort of thing a young fellow of my expectations ought to sneeze at. 1840 R. H. Barham Mr. Barney Maguire's Acct. in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 291 If any bould traitour..Sneezes at that, I'd like to see the man! 1902 Daily Chron. 12 June 9/3 Supposing this fire had occurred in Hackney,..it would have been ‘sneezed’ at, if I may so put it. < as lemmas |
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