| 单词 | stone-cold |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstone-cold stone-cold adj. (also in quasi-adverbial attributive use, esp. in stone cold sober = utterly sober). ΚΠ 1592 N. Breton Pilgrimage Paradise (Grosart) 12/1 Thou stone-colde hart. 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney I. 139 The lamb was stone cold, and the fish boiled to pieces. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. iii. 452 His text-book was the rigid, stone-cold Sentences of Peter the Lombard. 1913 F. H. Burnett T. Tembarom xxxiv. 435 It'd be stone-cold safe to rush things. 1937 T. Rattigan French without Tears iii. i. 65 Are you stone-cold sober? 1958 A. Sillitoe Saturday Night & Sunday Morning vii. 111 We've been stone-cold sober since Canning Circus. 1969 C. Armstrong Seven Seats to Moon v. 59 I could have been stone-cold-dead in Chicago! 1979 O. Sela Petrograd Consignment 144 Unlike the other revolutionaries, the Bolsheviks..were resolutely stone-cold sober. < as lemmas |
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