单词 | or something |
释义 | > as lemmasor something f. or something (colloquial), used to express an indistinct or unknown alternative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > [noun] > instance of alternation1633 vicissitude1648 or something1814 Box and Cox1867 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xi. 223 There were generally delays, a bad passage or something . View more context for this quotation 1899 R. Fry Let. Oct. (1972) I. 174 The Galleries shut at the absurd hour of 3..in order that the officials may have some absurd meal, a mittagsessen or something. 1913 ‘S. Rohmer’ Myst. Dr. Fu-Manchu i. 4 What, are you moved to London or something? 1926 I. Mackay Blencarrow v. 49 Yet undoubtedly this man was drunk or ill, or something. 1938 Chatelaine Oct. 25/3 Our things must have tattle-tale gray or somethin' 'cause they never shine like this. 1951 M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael ii. iii. 100 ‘Aren't they engaged or something?’ ‘I don't know what you mean by or something... It's a vulgar, slipshod phrase.’ 1958 N.Z. Listener 4 July 7/1 Jarden was off the field—had hurt his foot or something—and it seemed that we might be hard up against it. 1969 N. Freeling Tsing-Boum viii. 54 She might have a police record or something. 1978 P. Marsh et al. Rules of Disorder iii. 69 You have to fight or else people..think you're a bit soft or something. < as lemmas |
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