| 单词 | nothing to write home about |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnothing to write home about P6. In predicative use. to write home about and variants: that is worth writing to one's friends or family at home about; to boast of, to get excited about. Usually in negative contexts, esp. in nothing to write home about: denoting something that is unremarkable or mediocre. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > utter boastfully [verb (transitive)] > boast of roosec1175 avauntc1315 beyelpc1330 boastc1380 blazona1533 brag1588 ruff1602 crack1653 vapour1654 value1670 vauntc1696 gasconade1714 voust1794 to write home about1868 sing1897 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [phrase] between hawk and buzzard1637 among the middlings1885 nothing to write home about1914 1846 Christian Remembrancer July 192 Slow-tongued and unimaginative men, they found little to write home about.] 1868 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Aug. 205/2 Now, at last, you have something to write home about! 1903 D. Streamer Perverted Prov. 27 A timely adjunct, I've no doubt, But not worth writing home about. 1914 ‘I. Hay’ Knight on Wheels xxix. 291 ‘Anything doing at present?’ ‘Nothing to write home about, thanks.’ 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang i. 33 Fair to middling,..nothing to..shout about, nothing to wire or write home about. 1950 A. Baron There's No Home 11 Oh, this is something to write home about, all right. 1958 Times 3 Nov. 3/6 But for much of the day there was little to write home about as M.C.C.'s last eight wickets fell for 125 runs. 1967 V. Canning Python Project ii. 25 He has a small place in the country... Don't run away with the idea of anything worth writing home about when I say ‘place’. It's a crumby little cottage. 1998 S. Andrews Only Flesh & Bones xxii. 130 Her husband's not much to write home about as a lover. < as lemmas |
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