| 单词 | not to get a person anywhere |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to get a person anywhere j. Originally U.S. to get a person nowhere, not to get a person anywhere: to fail to benefit or improve the situation of a person, to fail to enable a person to make progress, to be of no avail to a person. to get a person somewhere: to enable a person to make progress or be successful. Similarly where does it get you (etc.)? ΚΠ 1902 F. Hopkinson Smith Fortunes of Oliver Horn xi. 231 I've been doing that all winter; I expect to be doing it for years. That don't get me anywhere, does it? 1910 Proc. Fourteenth Ann. Meeting National Assoc. Mutual Insurance Companies 1909 62 Scattering effort will get you nowhere. 1916 E. Miniter Our Natupski Neighbors ii. i. 163 American language as adopted by the Natupski family made constant use of the term ‘Where does it get you?’ It was no use to wash your face. That got you nowhere. 1921 R. A. Hood Quest of Alistair xxxvii. 274 It's all very well to play the good fellow but it doesn't get you anywhere. 1925 N.Y. World 14 Jan. 15/1 If you watch the clock you waste a lot of time that might be spent in things that Get You Somewhere. 1938 Open Road for Boys July 3/2 Here is a rifle and cartridge team that will get you somewhere, at low cost. 1939 M. Mitchell Let. 9 Feb. in Gone with the Wind Lett. (1986) 249 I noticed, however, that my noncommittal statements got me nowhere. 1962 A. La Guma Walk in Night i. 4 To hell with work. Work, work, work, where does it get you? 1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn x. 86 The sort of answer that got one nowhere. 2005 H. Mantel Beyond Black vi. 194 I don't think that trying to love him would get you anywhere. < as lemmas |
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