| 单词 | one big happy family |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone (also a) (great) big happy family P1. one (also a) (great) big happy family: a group of people who coexist happily and harmoniously and work towards the same goals (sometimes ironic); also in extended use. ΚΠ 1879 Chester (Pa.) Daily Times 13 Sept. 5/4 Cadets from nearly every State in the Union. A big happy family. 1894 Midland Monthly Dec. 490/2 ‘O, I know, you want to reduce the whole human race to one big happy family’, retorted Grace; ‘but God never meant it to be so!’ 1922 J. T. Smith in H. E. Stearns Civilization in U.S. 387 The whole affair would suggest to you a sort of Passion Play in which there was neither Judas nor Pilot, but just a great, big happy family of ham producers. 1924 E. Horne What Butler winked At v. 91 I think this sort of thing keeps servants together, makes them just one great big happy family. 1932 Week-end Rev. 30 July 139/2 You just treat 'em like one big, happy family. 1961 R. Engler Politics of Oil ix. 230 The issue of imports periodically threatens to destroy the heavily financed image of oildom as one big happy family. 1995 Independent (Nexis) 22 Sept. 22 What on earth can they have to hide? Surely the newly merged house is just one big happy family. 2003 R. Gervais & S. Merchant Office: Scripts 2nd Ser. Episode 4. 153 Brent. (addressing the room ) Hello, sorry everybody. Um, look, we are one big happy family here, yeah? < as lemmas |
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