单词 | that's the size of it |
释义 | > as lemmasthat's (about) the size of it f. In colloquial phrase that's (about) the size of it, etc.: that is what it amounts to, that is the situation. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [phrase] > that's the way it is that's (about) the size of it1860 that's (about) the strength of it1882 that's the way (also how) the ball bounces1952 that's the way the cookie crumbles1955 1860 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough 30 Nothing to do, and lots of time to do it in! that seems to be about the size of it. 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad viii. 71 ‘Bloodshed!’ ‘That's about the size of it,’ I said. 1886–7 F. R. Stockton Hundredth Man xxxv This is about the size of this business as it appears to me. 1904 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 24 June 10 Another competent military reporter says that General Oku had to send in ‘the whole Japanese reserves’. We fancy that that was exactly the size of it. 1914 G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. 89 That's the size of it, only I couldn't ever say it like that. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 298 Talking about the Gaelic league and the antitreating league and drink, the curse of Ireland. Antitreating is about the size of it. 1966 D. Francis Flying Finish ii. 21 ‘He just went to Italy and didn't come back?’ ‘That's about the size of it,’ Simon agreed. 1973 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Answer xv. 134 It's money that's really in his head... That's about the size of it, wouldn't you say? < as lemmas |
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