英语词汇“to cut it fine”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

4. With very little margin (of time, space, etc.), esp. in to cut it (also things) fine, to run it (also things) fine and variants.

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1842 in J. W. Carleton Sporting Sketch Bk. 60 I generally run things pretty fine; but it's a consolation that I never am too late, notwithstanding.

1846 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. iii. xi. 255 Captain Slasher..nearly scatters his cargo over the road, by cutting it fine between Squire Jorum's carriage and the post.

1871 Chambers's Jrnl. 9 Sept. 563/1 If once the water should come in at the top of either funnel, we were done for. Nevertheless, for purposes of concealment we sometimes ran it very fine.

1884 Boy's Own Paper Christmas No. 40/2 In endeavouring to round a headland the Crystal cut matters too fine, got on to rough ice.

1892 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 9 800 One cart-load was run so fine that partner and superintendent were constrained to lend a hand to finish the packing.

1913 W. M. Raine Crooked Trials & Straight i. i. 19 They shaved it fine, for as they rode away two men were coming down the street.

1930 W. S. Churchill My Early Life vii. 107 This was running things very fine, but it was not until my journey was half completed that I realised that I should be almost certainly late for dinner.

1992 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 9 Feb. With only five weeks for a lot of them to qualify they could be pushing it fine.

2014 H. MacDonald H is for Hawk xxix. 270 I'd some freelance teaching in town that afternoon, and I knew I was cutting it fine.

单词	to cut it fine
释义	> as lemmas to cut it (also things) fine 4. With very little margin (of time, space, etc.), esp. in to cut it (also things) fine, to run it (also things) fine and variants. ΚΠ 1842 in J. W. Carleton Sporting Sketch Bk. 60 I generally run things pretty fine; but it's a consolation that I never am too late, notwithstanding. 1846 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. iii. xi. 255 Captain Slasher..nearly scatters his cargo over the road, by cutting it fine between Squire Jorum's carriage and the post. 1871 Chambers's Jrnl. 9 Sept. 563/1 If once the water should come in at the top of either funnel, we were done for. Nevertheless, for purposes of concealment we sometimes ran it very fine. 1884 Boy's Own Paper Christmas No. 40/2 In endeavouring to round a headland the Crystal cut matters too fine, got on to rough ice. 1892 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 9 800 One cart-load was run so fine that partner and superintendent were constrained to lend a hand to finish the packing. 1913 W. M. Raine Crooked Trials & Straight i. i. 19 They shaved it fine, for as they rode away two men were coming down the street. 1930 W. S. Churchill My Early Life vii. 107 This was running things very fine, but it was not until my journey was half completed that I realised that I should be almost certainly late for dinner. 1992 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 9 Feb. With only five weeks for a lot of them to qualify they could be pushing it fine. 2014 H. MacDonald H is for Hawk xxix. 270 I'd some freelance teaching in town that afternoon, and I knew I was cutting it fine. extracted from fineadj.adv.n.² < as lemmas
随便看	put to her finance put to her mettle put to his finance put to his mettle put to his trump or trumps put to issue put to it put to lease put to light put to loan put to lumber put to mast put to mischance put to motion put to nurse put to oblivion put to one's hand put to one's hands put to one's worse put to or unto the sack put to pension put to pledge put to point put to profit put to proof

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