英语词汇“to be as much as one's life is worth”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. to be as much as one's life is worth: to be liable to cost one one's life. Also similarly with nouns other than life. Frequently in hyperbolic use.See also as much as one's ears are worth at ear n.¹ Phrases 3b(b).

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to be as much as one's life is worth1599

1599 S. Harsnett Discov. Fraudulent Pract. I. Darrel iv. ii. 228 Affirming, that the boye being in his bed, and in his fittes, to vncouer him, was as much as his life was worth.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. viii. 69 Let me intreat you, Sir, not to put me to that trouble, seeing it is as much as my life is worth, considering the weakenesse wherein I now am.

1694 J. Collier Misc. iv. 21 If he promises so [sic] set a Town on Fire, 'tis as much as his Eschutcheon and Pedigree is worth to fail in the Performance.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 24. ⁋4 It is as much as my Life is worth, if she should think we were intimate.

1850 G. Cupples Green Hand iv. 48/2 To haul on a wind was as much as her spars were worth.

1898 H. S. Canfield Maid of Frontier 176 It was as much as a man's life was worth to say ‘durn’ out loud.

1929 M. Lowry Let. 12 Mar. (1995) I. 63 Although I have had a certain amount of youthful success as a writer of slow and slippery blues it is as much as my life is worth to play anything in the house.

2001 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 26 Nov. 13 It would be as much as her job is worth to let a designated intellectual slip through.

单词	to be as much as one's life is worth
释义	> as lemmas to be as much as one's life is worth a. to be as much as one's life is worth: to be liable to cost one one's life. Also similarly with nouns other than life. Frequently in hyperbolic use.See also as much as one's ears are worth at ear n.¹ Phrases 3b(b). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > equality [phrase] > the equivalent of to be as much as one's life is worth1599 1599 S. Harsnett Discov. Fraudulent Pract. I. Darrel iv. ii. 228 Affirming, that the boye being in his bed, and in his fittes, to vncouer him, was as much as his life was worth. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. viii. 69 Let me intreat you, Sir, not to put me to that trouble, seeing it is as much as my life is worth, considering the weakenesse wherein I now am. 1694 J. Collier Misc. iv. 21 If he promises so [sic] set a Town on Fire, 'tis as much as his Eschutcheon and Pedigree is worth to fail in the Performance. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 24. ⁋4 It is as much as my Life is worth, if she should think we were intimate. 1850 G. Cupples Green Hand iv. 48/2 To haul on a wind was as much as her spars were worth. 1898 H. S. Canfield Maid of Frontier 176 It was as much as a man's life was worth to say ‘durn’ out loud. 1929 M. Lowry Let. 12 Mar. (1995) I. 63 Although I have had a certain amount of youthful success as a writer of slow and slippery blues it is as much as my life is worth to play anything in the house. 2001 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 26 Nov. 13 It would be as much as her job is worth to let a designated intellectual slip through. extracted from worthadj. < as lemmas
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