单词 | so much the better |
释义 | > as lemmasso much the better a. so much the better: used to indicate that a specified action, event, situation, etc., will have a generally welcome or personally advantageous result, or an additional subsidiary benefit.Typically used in conditional statements (with if) positing a particular scenario in terms of its potentially desirable outcome. ΚΠ ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 151v, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Much(e Ȝif þat it be a childe þat cheweþ and he be fastinge, so moche it is þe better. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxxiii. f. xiiv/2 The messangers reported to the kyng..that they coude fynde no man but that was redy to abyde the aduenture of batayle. It is so moche the better quod the kyng. 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. c. 383 If you make two razes on each side, it shall bee so much the better. 1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight 4 Laugh at your Friends, and if your Friends are sore, So much the better, you may laugh the more. 1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 2 If we can show finer and more remarkable specimens than our neighbours, so much the better. 1905 Times 14 Oct. 7/3 If in telling the truth we succeed also in shocking the bourgeois, why, so much the better! 1997 A. H. Carter First Cut (1998) iii. 295 If a light snow in an ill-equipped city forces us to stay at home once in a while so that we can ponder our lives, so much the better. 2006 Inside Edge June 89/2 Not everybody is paying attention to your play, and..if someone pegs you as a moron, so much the better. < as lemmas |
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