单词 | that's all about it |
释义 | > as lemmasthat's all about it P3. colloquial (now chiefly Scottish). that's all about it: ‘that is all there is to be said’; ‘there's an end of the matter’. ΚΠ 1813 D. W. Paynter Godfrey Ranger I. v. 94 He seed these two devilkins, and somebody like your son..going through his fields with something like the things that is missing; and so that's all about it. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xiii. 197 ‘Why, the traps have got him, and that's all about it,’ said the Dodger sullenly. 1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ in Scots Quair (1995) iv. 188 I want a change. So I've ta'en on the job of ship's carpenter, on the Vulture, bound for Newfoundland. That's all about it. 2001 J. Boyle Galloway Street 58 She has to learn to do what she's told and that's all about it. It'll teach her a lesson. < as lemmas |
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