单词 | to come it strong |
释义 | > as lemmasto come it strong a. to come it strong: †(a) to display great activity, energy, boldness, etc. (obsolete); (b) to overdo things; to go too far; to make statements which are hard to believe, to exaggerate; (now somewhat dated). ΚΠ 1811 S. Beazley Boarding-house ii. 31 There, my lad of wax—don't I flourish the fambles prettily—make the best use of my maulers, and come it strong. 1823 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1824) 29 Don't believe it, though. Coming it strong, eh! 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 86 Or in a stanhope come it strong. 1839 T. De Quincey Dinner in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 816/2 But, it was coming it too strong to allow no tobacco. 1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe II. xxi. 323 ‘Over-worked, I suppose,’ said Charles, ‘I thought he was coming it pretty strong these last few weeks.’ 1866 A. Halliday Mugby Junction v, in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 10 Dec. 26/2 I used to make that journey to Brighton in fifty-two minutes. The papers said forty-nine minutes, but that was coming it a little too strong. 1891 A. W. Marchmont Madeline Power (1900) xv. 170 Won't it just surprise those youngsters to hear me coming it strong at them in French. 1952 K. Farrer Missing Link (1955) xvi. 209 ‘Hermione isn't only Mary Queen of Scots. She's Shakespeare's Muse, too.’ ‘I say! This is coming it very strong.’ 1991 Q. Hoare tr. S. de Beauvoir Lett. to Sartre (1992) 72 I dozed—undisturbed but a little sickened by those women, who really were coming it strong. The two who were with the man..never stopped telling fantastic stories about spies. < as lemmas |
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