单词 | poor little me |
释义 | > as lemmaspoor little me poor little me n. (also †poor little I) used to convey the speaker's mock-depreciation of (and the supposed vulnerability of) himself or herself. ΚΠ 1628 R. Hayman Quodlibets ii. 23 Poore little I that from earth haue my birth, Am but a clod, compared to the Earth. 1664 T. Killigrew 1st Pt. Bellamira ii. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 489 She ne're thinks of poor little me but to grieve my heart. 1781 N. Mundy Let. 21 Oct. in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) iii. 48 How very Ill poor Little I am used kick'd quite out & not allowed room. 1818 M. Edgeworth Let. 15 Oct. (1971) 126 Could I four years ago have believed if it had been prophecied to me that I poor little i should this day have been driving about London with Honora alone? 1895 A. W. Pinero Second Mrs. Tanqueray iii. 111 I really thought you'd forgotten poor little me. 1913 A. Bennett Regent i. iii. 68 ‘What about poor little me?’ cried the driver, who was evidently a ribald socialist. 1993 F. Collymore Miss Edison 33 And the boy was in love with Blanche too. I knew. I could see. Even poor little me who'd had no experience in matters of this sort, I could see. < as lemmas |
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