| 单词 | to be with it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be with it f. to be with it, to be within a particular fashionable or exclusive group or set, to be up-to-date or au fait with the latest news, ideas, etc.; to be mentally alert. Also to get with it, to become informed or up-to-date, etc. slang (originally U.S.). Cf. with-it adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [verb (intransitive)] > follow fashion to be in the fashion1569 modea1661 to be with it1931 swing1957 to get with it1961 1931 Amer. Mercury Nov. 353/2 Not with it, said of an outsider. ‘He's not with it.’ 1959 R. Condon Manchurian Candidate (1960) vii. 108 They are with it, Raymond. Believe me, they are even away ahead of me. 1960 Guardian 9 Dec. 13 The new Time and Tide, to borrow the language of the teen-ager, is ‘with it’. 1961 J. O'Hara in Assembly 159 Bud come to see you, especially when you had a chance of winning? Get with it, boy. 1971 Daily Mail 6 May 24/4 Horne made a strong attempt to get with it. Result: the stronger emphasis on fashionwear. 1976 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 125 17/1 The need to be in fashion—in the swim—up to date—‘with it’—might not have been the least of our driving forces for general progress. 1981 M. Doody in D. Martin & P. Mullen No Alternative iv. 37 What is ‘with it’ for one or two generations can seem palpable folly a hundred years later. 1985 W. J. Burley Wycliffe & Four Jacks vii. 149 There's an old man, living in a home... He's quite with it—I mean he's mentally alert. < as lemmas |
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