单词 | the night |
释义 | > as lemmasthe night b. the night: the first occasion on which a play or other entertainment is publicly performed. Frequently in phrases expressing optimism about a forthcoming performance when problems are encountered during rehearsal, as (it will be) all right on the night. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > optimism > expression of optimism [phrase] never feara1593 silver lininga1616 (it will be) all right on the night1908 1908 E. Terry Story of my Life xiv. 349 Poor Mr. Rothenstein was much worried over his lithograph, yet ‘it was all right on the night’, as actors say. 1911 O. Onions Widdershins 26 I've not got on very well with it. But it will be all right on the night, as you used to say. 1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art xiv. 322 In the rehearsal of any given passage..the actors may move and speak exactly as they will ‘on the night’. 1949 Economist 23 July 172 The hope that the Atlantic Pact would ‘turn out all right on the night’. 1973 E. Lemarchand Let or Hindrance xiii. 165 Penny may fly off the handle, but she's always all right on the night. 1990 Amateur Stage Sept. 2/2 (advt.) Eliminate the problem of promising rehearsals turning into shows that are not ‘all right on the night’. the night (c) the night: (a) Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English (northern), tonight; †(b) during the night, by night (also in plural) (obsolete). ΚΠ c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) 7576 Hine bi-wakede þare niht twenti hundred cnihtes. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 551 Ȝour selff sall fyrst his blyssyng tak for me, For sekyrly ȝe seruit it best the nycht. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 118 Forbeare to sleepe the nights, and fast the daies. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 254 Haue you a ruffin that will sweare... Reuell the night . View more context for this quotation ?c1625 in E. Beveridge & J. D. Westwood Fergusson's Sc. Prov. (1924) No. 921 Kisse me the night I wil ryd the morne. 1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 154 Yestreen the queen had four Maries, The night she'll hae but three. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 493 Arena ye..sair caulded the nicht? for you're hoarse and husky. 1885 F. J. Child Clerk Saunders in Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads III. 160 We hae but ae sister, And behad, she's lying wi you the night. 1924 J. H. Bone Crystal Set 11 I'm late the nicht, guid wife. 1965 B. Friel Philadelphia, Here I Come! 75 Joe. I don't think I'm in form the night, boys. 1977 G. Todd Geordie Words & Phrases Neet, it's a caad neet the neet. 1998 A. Warner Sopranos 7 We'll test it out the night girls! < as lemmas |
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