| 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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