| 单词 | there's life in the old dog yet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthere's life in the old dog yet f. there's life in the old dog yet and variants: an assertion of continuing competence, strength, etc., notwithstanding evidence to the contrary. ΚΠ 1840 S. Grey in New Sporting Mag. Feb. 76 Men are to be found who would kill the old hound, And his long years of service forget; But a hand I'll ne'er lend to destroy my old friend, ‘For the life's in the Old Dog yet.’] 1840 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 1 Feb. 2/5 The New Sporting Magazine for February 1840... Contents:—‘There's Life in the Old Dog yet!’ 1852 P. L. Simmonds Sir John Franklin & Arctic Regions 356 Sir John Ross, we know, went out in the Victory to Regent Inlet, and was frozen in for four years, and all the world gave him up for lost—but ‘there's life in the old dog yet’, as the song has it. 1899 E. L. Godkin 15 Nov. in Life & Lett. (1907) xviii. 240 As to my health ‘there is life in the old dog yet’. I went abroad in May completely broken up, but the doctor there assured me there was nothing wrong but having worked too hard and too long. 1922 H. V. Esmond Law Divine ii. 45 Bill. But—but Dad's married—besides he's thirty-eight. He's much too old to go messing about with widows. Ted (chuckling). There's life in the old dog yet. 1940 Time 15 July 49/1 Tallulah Bankhead demonstrated that there's life in Pinero's old girl yet. 2000 Truck & Driver Nov. 11/1 She might be long in the tooth but clearly there's life in the old girl yet, as she can still be found at work shunting scrap trailers. < as lemmas |
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