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单词 six ways for sunday
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six (also seven, nine, etc.) ways for (also from) Sunday
b. Originally and chiefly North American. six (also seven, nine, etc.) ways for (also from) Sunday: in a disordered, frantic, or uncontrolled state or manner; (also) completely, thoroughly.
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1832 Amer. Turf Reg. & Sporting Mag. July 575 A hat that stands nine ways for Sunday.
1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. ix. 49 With their hair lookin a thousand ways for Sunday.
1865 in Georgia Hist. Q. (1942) 26 297 We toar down the fences and piled the rails on the track and seting fire to it warped Two ways for sunday.
1869 Uncle Josh's Trunk-full of Fun 39 Red hairs in abundance stood six ways for Sunday.
1890 St. Nicholas Dec. 147/1 My legs they went nine ways for Sunday on the instant.
1920 Overland Monthly Nov. 71 You're going to give me the cleanest shave I ever had, or I'll lick you seven ways from Sunday.
1932 P. M. Green Let. 19 Mar. (1994) 200 Well I've let my tongue run on two ways for Sunday. And the gossip is confidential.
1996 S. Gould Wildside 214 Well enough—except for having my constitutional rights violated six ways from Sunday.
2003 ‘Zane’ Nervous xiii. 80 Before it was over, said and done, Jerry had fucked me six ways from Sunday.
extracted from Sundayn.adv.
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