| 单词 | to ask no odds |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ask (formerly †beg) no odds d. Chiefly U.S. regional. to ask (formerly †beg) no odds: to desire no advantage; to seek no favours or special consideration. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (intransitive)] > put forward a claim > seek no favour to ask (formerly beg) no odds1806 1806 Baltimore Evening Post 5 Mar. 2/2 in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) 620 No odds he begs Of any beast that walks upon four legs. 1834 Vermont Free Press 7 June A Varmounter never uses a dog... Give him a gun, and he asks no odds. 1857 H. C. Kimball in B. Young et al. Jrnl. Discourses V. 32/2 I ask no odds of them, no more than I do of the dirt I walk on. 1894 Congress. Rec. 29 May 5447/1 South Dakota asks no odds of any State of the Union. 1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum xiv. 128 I want to see how long it'll take to git all over the village that he didn't ask no odds o' nobody. 1995 Visit'n (Vermont Folklife Center) 29 They did for themselves and they didn't ask any odds of anyone. < as lemmas |
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