单词 | to be about it |
释义 | > as lemmasto be about it P4. colloquial. to be about it: to be more or less correct; to be adequate. Chiefly in that is about it: the matter, task, account, etc., is more or less finished or complete; ‘there is little more to say’. Cf. that's it at it pron., adj., and n.1 Phrases 2c.Usually with stress on it. ΚΠ 1834 W. Cobbett To Lord Radnor in Select. Cobbett's Polit. Wks. VI. 761 There, my lord, that's about it. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xx. 194 Eighteen hundred a-year in land, and twenty-two thousand five hundred in the Three-and-a-half per Cents.; that's about it. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxiv. 443 ‘They reason that we were advantaged by no parlous start of them, and being on foot are as yet no mighty way from where we took the water.’ ‘Yes, sire, that is about it, I am afraid, though I was hoping better things.’ 1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. iv. 74 ‘If I'm tired, I'm rather happy too, my dear.’ Rather happy was about it, he thought. 1963 T. Parker Unknown Citizen v. 120 You give your missus so much money a week, you knock a few kids out of her, and that's about it, really. 1981 T. C. Boyle Water Music (1983) i. 22 A goat-hair tent, a change of juddah, a pot, a cookstove, a leaky hookah and a blunt-edged saber..—that's about it. 2006 Arena Oct. 185/3 Over the last 40 years the ‘Jam Tarts’ have won the Scottish Cup in 1998, and, well, that's about it. < as lemmas |
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