英语词汇“one's number is up”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P4. colloquial. one's number is up and variants [with reference to the number on a person's lottery ticket, or some other number by which a person may be identified, as an army number] : one's time (to die, etc.) has come, one is finished or doomed. See also Phrases 8.

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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > doomed to die

one's number is up1804

the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > beyond human control [phrase] > be destined to an adverse fate

there is no way but one1542

one's number is up1804

to have a person's number on it1917

1804 C. Lamb Let. 13 Jan. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1976) II. 130 Though this is a lottery to which none But G. Burnett would chuse to trust his all, there is no harm just to call in at Despair's office for a friend, and see if his number is come up.

1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights iv. 56 You couldn't tallygraft to Billy no more. His number's up awright, wiv no error.

1915 ‘Bartimeus’ Tall Ship i. 11 I think our number's up, old thing.

1937 V. Bartlett This is my Life xi. 188 The Director-General said that he would nevertheless like me to broadcast a short talk under my own name... My number was up.

1975 J. Aiken Voices in Empty House xviii. 331 He'd got leukaemia. He knew his number was up.

1989 G. E. Klyve & C. G. Oakley Legend of Perseus i. 33 Down and down the submarine sank. Danaë truly believed that her number, whichever one it was, was up, and waited tensely for the inrush of water.

单词	one's number is up
释义	> as lemmas one's number is up P4. colloquial. one's number is up and variants [with reference to the number on a person's lottery ticket, or some other number by which a person may be identified, as an army number] : one's time (to die, etc.) has come, one is finished or doomed. See also Phrases 8. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > doomed to die one's number is up1804 the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > beyond human control [phrase] > be destined to an adverse fate there is no way but one1542 one's number is up1804 to have a person's number on it1917 1804 C. Lamb Let. 13 Jan. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1976) II. 130 Though this is a lottery to which none But G. Burnett would chuse to trust his all, there is no harm just to call in at Despair's office for a friend, and see if his number is come up. 1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights iv. 56 You couldn't tallygraft to Billy no more. His number's up awright, wiv no error. 1915 ‘Bartimeus’ Tall Ship i. 11 I think our number's up, old thing. 1937 V. Bartlett This is my Life xi. 188 The Director-General said that he would nevertheless like me to broadcast a short talk under my own name... My number was up. 1975 J. Aiken Voices in Empty House xviii. 331 He'd got leukaemia. He knew his number was up. 1989 G. E. Klyve & C. G. Oakley Legend of Perseus i. 33 Down and down the submarine sank. Danaë truly believed that her number, whichever one it was, was up, and waited tensely for the inrush of water. extracted from numbern. < as lemmas
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