| 单词 | of nothing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasof nothing b. [Probably after French homme (etc.) de rien, or classical Latin nihilī.] of nothing: of no account, worthless. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant thing of noughtc1425 nothing such1579 of nothing1583 nullitya1591 O1608 ciphera1616 zero1650 flinga1661 leather and prunella1734 small change1822 minus quantity1843 nuthin'1843 nothingburger1953 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xv. 89 The daunger that wee bee scaped out of seemeth to be a thing of nothing [Fr. ce n'est rien du danger dont nous sommes eschappez]. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. 35 Vitellius, a man of nothing,..drunck at noone-day and heauy with surfet. a1628 J. Preston Treat. Effectual Faith 145 in Breast-plate of Faith (1631) Looke upon them as trifles, as matters of nothing. 1677 Debauchee i. ii. 10 Ha, ha, ha, what a Coyle was here, about a thing of nothing. 1774 R. Warner tr. Plautus Courtezans v. ii, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies V. 100 You man of nothing [L. homo nihili], see you lose not, By your neglect, the favour of the Gods. 1792 T. Jefferson Let. 9 Sept. in Papers (1990) XXIV. 353 The constitution, which he has so often declared to be a thing of nothing which must be changed. 1823 W. Howitt & M. Howitt Forest Minstrel 15 Fancy's spoil'd child will ever surely be A thing of nothing in the worldly throng. 1863 A. Trollope Phineas Finn II. xxxviii. 6 And now he had fought his duel, and was back in town,—and the thing seemed to have been a thing of nothing. a1971 S. Smith Coll. Poems (1975) 52 You would not tell the truth about your grief But..made it a thing of nothing. < as lemmas |
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