| 单词 | the done thing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe done thing P1. colloquial. the done thing: the accepted, correct, or fashionable action or mode of behaviour; = thing n.1 7a. Often in negative contexts (cf. not done at do v. Phrases 4c). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety seemlihead?a1366 honestya1398 comeliness1440 seemlihoodc1440 seemlityc1440 semblessea1500 seemliness1548 decentness1561 decorum?1571 handsomeness1595 civility1612 decency1682 exactness1683 elegance1686 propriety1753 thing1791 bienseancea1797 convenances1831 decorousness1834 the becoming1842 correctnessa1859 good (also bad) form1868 properness1873 correctitude1893 the done thing1917 1917 Friends' Intelligencer 3 Nov. 697/1 A lot of us are threatening to sleep out on deck to-night. It's quite the ‘done thing’. 1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment iv. 57 Others were anxious lest the taking of steep and thorny paths..should come to be ‘the done thing’. 1932 Times of India 25 Mar. 12/5 In European society in Calcutta it is not ‘the done thing’ to live south of Park Street. 1953 N. Fitzgerald Midsummer Malice ii. 32 I expect he made a pass at you. He still thinks it is the done thing in the theatre. 1993 C. MacDougall Lights Below 163 In my granny's day, being unmarried and pregnant was not the done thing. 2001 K. Fearon & A. Verlaque Lurgan Champagne & Other Tales 9 It wasn't the done thing for a girl to play football. But I never let that stop me. < as lemmas |
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