单词 | shall i say |
释义 | > as lemmasshall I say b. intransitive. In parenthetic clauses introduced by as. Later also in parenthetic phrase shall I say (cf. shall we say at Phrases 5b). ΚΠ OE Ælfric Let. to Wulfsige (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 6 He ne moste on wydewum wifigan ne on aworpenum wife; ac, ealswa we ær sædon, on sumum mædene. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 463 Þiss gode mann..Wass alls i seȝȝde nu littlær. Ȝehatenn zacaryas. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 1623 (MED) Thei..maden othre goddes newe, As thou hast herd me seid tofore. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) l. 359 (MED) Nothing multiplieth, as auctours says, But bi one of these two waies. 1580 W. Fulke Retentiue 5 As Augustine saith, we must hold yt church which both is catholike, & is so called. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 278 Why then, you left mee..In earnest, shall I say ? View more context for this quotation 1620 R. Newton Countesse of Mountgomeries Eusebeia 26 The want of due regard to these things, oftentimes makes the house of God, the house of Rimmon; or as Christ said, A Den of Theeues. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 262 As we are wont to say, Well done. 1748 J. Upton Crit. Observ. Shakespeare (ed. 2) ii. iii. 147 Making war against the hair, as Shakespeare says, by destroying it. 1826 Lancet 25 Nov. 263/1 There's no help for spilt milk, as we say in Ireland. 1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. 20 The timidity of our public opinion is our disease, or, shall I say, the publicness of opinion, the absence of private opinion. 1898 Cosmopolitan Oct. 716 It is, as Zola said somewhere, the over-realm which transcends the pettiness of sects and politics. a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) xxxviii. 202 Will you not..find some new word of opprobriousness for (shall I say?) your stepson? 1966 B. Brophy Don't never Forget 313 Snobberies and titles are to her absurd affectations which she can't, as she says, ‘be doing with’. 2003 A. Collins Where did it all go Right? i. 28 We learned something that day, as Kyle says on South Park. < as lemmas |
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