单词 | to be out in one's reckoning |
释义 | > as lemmasto be out in (or of) one's reckoning P3. to be out in (or of) one's reckoning: to be mistaken in one's calculation, assessment, or expectation. In later use cf. sense 5c. ΚΠ 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 9 In all, and euery one of these, haue I found some markes and signes of their saluation: Onely in the Scriuener, I misse in my account, and am quite out of my reckoning, nor doe I finde in him any amendment at all. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) Pref. p. xii A plain argument, that the Examiner is quite out in his reckoning. a1749 P. Cockburn Enq. into Truth Mosaic Deluge (1750) ii. 93 How he made his computation he tells us not, but on examination it will appear that never was a man more out in his reckoning. 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. xv. 178 Every five or six years, there comes a struggle between masters and men. They'll find themselves mistaken this time, I fancy,—a little out of their reckoning. 1855 Ld. Lonsdale in Croker Papers (1884) III. 323 There never was a division where the calculators and whips were more out of their reckoning. 1906 E. Nesbit Railway Children xi. 239 They were a couple of hundred yards out of their reckoning and had to creep along the face of the hill. 1942 H. H. Peck Mem. of Stockman 106 A wonderful bushman, able to strike across new country without tracks for hundreds of miles and never out in his reckoning. 1971 Math. Gaz. 55 195 He wasn't very good at pacing, and his little legs were rather podgy: so by the time he had paced 9/ 10 of a mile he was a good deal out of his reckoning. < as lemmas |
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