| 单词 | before you know where you are |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbefore you know where you are b. before you know where you are, etc.: = before one knows it at Phrases 25a. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > immediacy > immediately [phrase] without restc1225 but bodea1300 without residence1488 before you know where you are1803 in a heartbeat1860 before (one) can say knife1874 1803 Anti-Gallican 1 No. 8. 245/1 So luff up Bony or you'll be fast a ground before you know where you are. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine v [We] found ourselves regular knights of the road, before we knew where we were almost. 1916 A. Huxley Let. 30 June (1969) 104 Steps must quickly be taken, or we shall find the place full of effigies and all the money spent before we know where we are. 1930 W. S. Maugham Breadwinner ii. 102 Almost before you know where you are, they're young men and women with characters of their own. 1970 C. Whitman Death out of Focus xii. 183 You're a clever devil... You'll be an Inspector before you know where you are. 2001 J. Boyle Galloway Street 35 And before you know where you are he's jooked away past you and put in a cross to Owen Mangan or Tommy Duignan. < as lemmas |
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