| 单词 | to be a marker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be a marker 14. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). to be a marker: to be worthy of comparison (with something). Usually in negative contexts, and chiefly with to. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [noun] > standard of comparison > as worthy to be a marker1881 1881 A. Trumble Slang Dict. 48 ‘Pull down your vest’, ‘jim-jams’,..‘chalk it down’, ‘it isn't a marker’,..and many others, are nearly all American slang terms, and some of them quite modern. 1888 Congress. Rec. 12 Dec. 202/2 The waving of the bloody shirt would not have been a marker. 1895 H. P. Robinson Men Born Equal 145 It ain't a marker to what's ahead. 1904 W. H. Smith Promoters xxv. 366 What little I've told you isn't a marker to other things he said. 1974 W. R. Hunt North of 53° xi. 66 I tell you the early days of Montana were not a marker to what I have gone through this winter. < as lemmas |
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