| 单词 | one too many |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone too many c. one too many: one more than is wanted, needed, or beneficial; (colloquial) one more drink than is advisable. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > excessively [phrase] > that which is excessive > and superfluous one too many1599 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > too much alcohol one too many1941 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. i. 125 Being one too many by my wearie selfe. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. i. 35 When one is one too many, goe get thee from the dore. View more context for this quotation 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. v. 26 He believes he has, in me, one sister too many for his interest. 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons II. xii. vi. 288 (heading) The confession of a youth who, in the Old World, finds himself one too many. 1865 G. J. Whyte-Melville Cerise (1866) I. xv. 232 The Marquise was..left planted as one too many. 1937 D. Teilhet & H. Teilhet Feather Cloak Murders i. 20 You run off to bed like a good fellow. You've had one too many. 1941 H. L. Mencken Newspaper Days (1942) xii. 193 The poor old man..nursing a hangover from a Bar Association banquet, had thrown in one too many quick ones, and so got himself plastered. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. ii. 43 Some people have made one imaginative leap too many and show little sign of being able to return to the realm of reason. 1994 Daily Tel. 3 Jan. 1/5 He gave me a bit of an old-fashioned look as if not sure whether he had had one too many on New Year's Eve. < as lemmas |
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