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单词 to be at a word
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to be at a (also one) word
(ii) In short, briefly; = in a word at Phrases 1e(a); (in later use more usually) frankly, truthfully. Similarly at few words, at short words, etc. to be at a (also one) word: to be brief; to be honest, to speak plainly; = as good as one's word at good adj., n., adv., and int. Phrases 4e; (also) to stand by what one has said, to have nothing further to say Obsolete (chiefly archaic and regional in later use).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > be concise or brief [verb (intransitive)]
to be at a (also one) wordOE
to make short1556
to be brief1588
abbreviate1596
to cut short1691
to cut (also make) a long story short1732
to make short of long1883
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adverb] > in short
at a (also one) wordOE
at few wordsOE
shortly1303
in short wordsc1380
oncec1384
in short and plainc1386
in sum?a1425
at short wordsa1450
at short1513
briefly?1521
in a word1522
in one word1522
with a word1522
summa1535
to be short1544
in (the) fine1545
in few1550
summarily1567
in a sum1574
in shorta1577
in brief1609
briefa1616
in a little1623
tout court1747
sans phrase1808
in a nutshell1822
in nuce1854
OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Oxf.) iii. xiv. 206 Swa swa ic nu æt feawum wordum secge, be þon þe þa sædon þe hine cuþon.
c1330 Gregorius (Auch.) (1914) l. 962 A Cardinal spac þer among, And seyd schortliche att wordes þre.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales (Hengwrt) (2003) Thopas-Melibeus link l. 11 Pleynly at o word Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a tord.
a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) l. 2813 in K. Brunner Mittelengl. Vers-roman über Richard Löwenherz (1913) 235 The Sarezynes..comen afftyr ffaste fflyngyng, At schorte wurdes a gret route.
a1475 (?a1350) Seege Troye (Harl.) (1927) l. 1808a Alisaunder dyed, at worddis short.
1483 Vulgaria abs Terencio (T. Rood & T. Hunte) sig. nijv Tell me att oon word [L. vno verbo] what thou woldist wyth me.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 205 All goodnesse (to speake at a worde) goeth awaie.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxxj v He wrote to themperour..repeting the whole action at few words.
1579 A. Fleming tr. Synesius Paradoxe sig. d.iij To be at a worde, such as so deintilie doe dresse their crisped skonse: what are they but effeminate fellowes..and hucksters of their owne honestie.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 104 Vrsula I know you well enough, you are signior Anthonio. Antho. At a word I am not.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 294 Go to, I haue spoke at a word, God keep you. View more context for this quotation
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 104 At a word, all [names] which in English had Of set before them,..and all which in Latine..have had De præfixed,..were borrowed from places.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iii. 14 I am at a word: follow. View more context for this quotation
1694 W. Penn Brief Acct. Rise Quakers ii. 45 They were at a Word in Dealing: Nor could their customers many Words tempt them from it.
1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett I. i. 1 To be at a word, will you render it possible for me to call you my son?
a1845 Lady Nairne Caller Herrin' in Lays from Strathearn (1846) i. 6 At ae word be in ye're dealin'.
1846 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 31 Jan. 74/2 To be at a word with you, doctor, we must either tear open or tear down your house, or get him; for get him we will!
1857 T. Martin tr. A. G. Oehlenschläger Aladdin ii. 50 I've no skill in chaffering... Say, at a word, how much you'll let me have, And I will trust you for your honest looks.
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