| 单词 | outs and ins |
| 释义 | > as lemmasouts and ins 3. outs and ins: complexities, ramifications, complete details; = ins and outs at in n.2 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun] > quality of being specific or detailed > a detail or particular > details or particulars > complicated outs and ins1658 ins and outs1844 1658 J. Goodwin Triumviri ii. 11 Why did Mr. Kendall labour in the very fire..in troubling the Presse with so many soe's, and not soe's, with so many outs and ins, with offs and ons, with firsts and seconds, with fore-thoughts, and after-thoughts, with forwards, and backwards? 1773 R. Fergusson Poems 91 He's a man weel vers'd in a' the laws, Kens baith their outs and ins. 1846 W. Cross Disruption xxxix. 427 We..canna pretend to understaund a' the oots and ins o' the Kirk question. 1847 Illustr. London News 4 Sept. 158/1 A rather handsome, irregular building; full, in familiar phrase, of ‘outs and ins’. 1865 J. S. Mill in Morning Star 6 July He had not considered the outs and ins of the question of marriage with a deceased wife's sister. 1916 T. W. Paterson Wyse-sayin's xvi. 33 The Lord Himsel' ll settle the oots-an'-ins o' the hale maitter. 1985 New Yorker 5 Aug. 47/3 Kison knows the outs and ins of his profession. < as lemmas |
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