| 单词 | past one's best |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspast one's best 6. With possessive adjective. A person's or thing's best state or condition. Frequently in to look one's best, past one's best. Cf. at one's best at Phrases 3a(b). ΚΠ 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. O4v A smudge peice of a handsome fellow it hath beene in his dayes, but now he is olde and past his best. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical 121 If you dye young, what pity 'twas they'l say, that he should be cut off in his Prime. If Old, he was e'en past his best. a1715 M. Monck Marinda (1716) 14 The Shepherdess that day was dress'd Artfully plain, and lookt her best. 1829 R. Monteath New & Easy Syst. draining & reclaiming Bogs & Marches Ireland 192 The larch is past its best, and dying, and requires to be taken away. 1858 W. Johnson Ionica 49 Bright gleams the pipe-clay below the red breast, And in slate-coloured trowsers the line look their best. 1952 C. Beaton Diary 4 Nov. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xviii. 245 The two Women of the Bedchamber in oyster satin were not looking their best in this cold, unbecoming light of winter. 1968 Times 23 Dec. 6/2 He was not feeling his best and had what scientists felt could be the symptoms of Hongkong influenza. 2006 S. Ings Weight of Numbers 176 But their friendship is past its best, their destinies have come decoupled. < as lemmas |
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