| 单词 | to get ahead of oneself |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get (also run, be) ahead of oneself P3. to get (also run, be) ahead of oneself ahead of oneself: to proceed with something before the expected or appropriate time, to do or say something early and out of sequence; (also) to presumptuously assume an outcome before it has occurred. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb] > early, too early, or prematurely ratheOE oversoona1400 overtimelya1400 untimeously1513 before his (also her, etc.) time1545 abortively1552 immaturely1572 untimelya1586 forwardlya1641 prematurely1641 premature1754 ahead of oneself1854 over-early1856 beforetimes1885 1854 B. St. John Purple Tints Paris xxvii No one seems to look upon the defunct Republic as anything but an impertinent attempt to get ahead of ourselves. 1880 M. M. Mathews Ten Years in Nevada vi. 144 He was so greedy that he had got ahead of himself; for if the house had burned, neither he nor I would have got anything. 1906 M. O. Wright Garden, you & I 92 You cannot possibly guess with what we were threatened, but I am running ahead of myself. 1941 J. Grenfell Let. 28 Dec. in Darling Ma (1989) 325 But I've got ahead of myself. Did I tell you that I'd sent Mrs Proctor and her little girls home for Christmas? 1985 F. Michaels Texas Rich (1987) i. x. 159 Little Maggie..is doing fine. Nurse Jenkins seems to think she's a bit ahead of herself, gobbling down six bottles a day. 1992 P. Auster Leviathan (1993) iii. 138 The waltz of disasters went on... But that was later, and I don't want to run ahead of myself. 2000 Independent 10 June ii. 9/6 Meanwhile, Penguin got rather ahead of themselves and had ‘Orange Prizewinner’ stickers printed for Zadie Smith's much-fancied White Teeth. < as lemmas |
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