| 单词 | that'll be the day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthat'll (also that will) be the day k. Originally Australian and New Zealand. that'll (also that will) be the day: (originally) that will be a significant day to experience, a day worth waiting for, etc. (cf. sense 8c); (now chiefly ironic) that is most unlikely; that will never happen. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > [verb (intransitive)] playeOE glewc900 gameOE lakec1300 solace1340 bourdc1440 dallyc1440 sporta1450 to make sportc1475 disport1480 to have a good (bad, etc.) time (of it, formerly on it)1509 toy?1521 pastime1523 recreate1589 jest1597 feast1609 deliciate1633 divert1670 carpe diem1817 hobby-horse1819 popjoy1853 that'll be the day1916 to play around1929 loon1969 the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > desist from effort or exertion restOE to hang up one's hatcheta1350 to call it a night1912 that'll be the day1916 the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > quit or give up to give offa1616 quita1642 to tie up1760 that'll be the day1916 to turn in1918 to go through1933 to walk away1950 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > desire the impossible [phrase] > absence of possibility you won't catch me1698 not a cat (in hell)'s chance1796 pigs might fly1840 there is (also was, etc.) no way (that)1908 not a hope (also chance) in hell1923 it's (just) not on1935 pigs have wings1936 that'll (also that will) be the day1941 not on your Nelly1959 1916 Petersburg (S. Austral.) Times & Northern Advertiser 20 Oct. 486/4 You don't know how I am waiting to get back again: that will be the day. 1918 Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Aug. 4/1 As in Cairo town you've always got to pay your way, Just wait for leave to Aussie. Oh! that'll be the day. 1936 Austral. Women's Weekly 12 Sept. 13/3 You just wait till the Centenary comes around in about niney-nine [sic] years: that'll be the day! Won't we have some fun! 1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 50 That'll be the day!..a cant phrase expressing mild doubt following some boast or claim by a person. 1943 N. Marsh Colour Scheme vi. 101 He's a beaut. Wait till I get him. That'll be the day. 1951 N. Marsh Opening Night xi. 248 ‘If I've bungled’, Alleyn muttered, ‘I've..bungled in a big way.’.. Bailey astonished everyone by saying..‘That'll be the day.’ ‘Don't talk Australian,’ Mr. Fox chided. 1965 L. Sands Something to Hide v. 83 ‘Got any free road-maps?’ ‘That'll be the day. Bob apiece.’ 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 3 Nov. 7 A hopeful headline in 1929 reads ‘Snobbery a thing of the past?’ (that'll be the day). < as lemmas |
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