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单词 not to put it past
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not to put it (also anything) past (a person)
d. Beyond the ability or power of. In later use only in not to put it (also anything) past (a person) (colloquial): to think (a person) quite capable of performing a specific action, or behaving in a specified way.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expect [verb (intransitive)] > not be surprised by
not to put it (also anything) past (a person)1870
1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher King & No King iii. sig. F1 You are welcome Sir, I thinke, but if you be not, tis past me To make you so: for I am here a stranger, Greater then you.
1677 J. Dryden State Innocence v. i. 39 Wilt thou forsake me, in distress, For that which now is past me to redress?
1859 G. Meredith Last Words Juggling Jerry in Once a Week 3 Sept. 190/2 It's past parsons to console us.
1870 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 198 Br. Yates gave me the following Irish expressions—I wouldn't put it past you or I wouldn't doubt you = It is just what I should expect of you.
1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte I. v. 63 I wouldn't put it past Charlotte to be trying to ketch Mr. Dysart.
1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 251 I'm not surprised though... I wouldn't put anything past you.
1976 M. Birmingham Heat of Sun ix. 159 ‘Do you think she could possibly consider killing justified for the sake of her deprived flock?’ ‘I wouldn't put it past her’.
1998 N. Jones Hollyoaks (Mersey TV transmission script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 256. 35 Lewis: You don't think he set all that up? Ruth: I wouldn't put it past him.
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