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单词 to have had it
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to have had it
g. colloquial (originally Military slang). to have had it.
(a) To have missed one's chance of having or doing something; to be out of luck.
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1941 New Statesman 30 Aug. 218/3 To have had it, to miss something pleasant, e.g. leave.
1943 Time 22 Mar. 51 ‘You've had it,’ in R.A.F. vernacular, means ‘You haven't got it and you won't get it.’
1946 S. Gibbons Westwood vi. 78 The afternoon was ended; as Hilda's boys would say, ‘You've had it’, and there was nothing she could do.
1990 S. J. Williams in Chronic Respiratory Illness (1993) iv. 60 If I were going off to catch a bus or something like that and I had forgotten something I needed from upstairs, well if there's no one else in the house then you've had it; you've missed your bus!
(b) To be beyond hope or repair; to be ruined, finished; spec. to have been killed, to be dead. Also in hyperbolic uses: to be past one's best; to be in serious trouble.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dead
sleepc950
restOE
liea1000
to be deadc1000
to lie lowa1275
layc1300
to be gathered to one's fathersa1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
to sup with our Saviour, with Our (the) Lord, with (Jesus) Christa1400
repose1586
slumber1594
to sup in heaven or hell1642
to turn one's toes up to the daisies1842
to be out of the way1881
to push up daisiesa1918
to have had it1942
RIP1962
the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > be finished or ruined
goose1928
to have had it1942
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > be beyond hope [verb (intransitive)]
to have had it1942
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > render mechanical [verb (intransitive)] > of machine: operate > cease to operate
jam1885
to have had it1942
to shut down1945
1942 Los Angeles Times 18 Sept. a1 In the R.A.F. when a man has been killed, they don't say he's been killed. They say: ‘He's had it.’
1944 N.Z.E.F. Times (2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force) 21 Aug. 5 Our water-bottles had had it (what's known as ‘out the monk’).
1957 Listener 13 June 945/2 Here are the men who matter—the highly paid white artisan has had it, but he'll put up a big rearguard action.
1959 N.Z. Listener 12 June 21/3 He re-wound the cord and tried again: no spark. ‘It's had it, I think.’
1981 Ld. Carrington in Observer 24 May 13/1 If you take yourself too seriously in politics, you've had it.
1995 Independent 22 Feb. (Weekend section) 1/1 Does the calendar decide when a person has had it? Is age of retirement a testament written in stone?
2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xxiii. 265 He walks in and finds us here, then we've had it.
(c) To be at the point of mental or emotional collapse; (in weakened use) to be extremely tired.
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1944 E. Pyle Brave Men xiv. 224 It was only when a man ‘had had it’—the combat expression for anyone who had had more than he could take—that he sat alone and didn't say much and began to stare.
1958 P. Scott Mark of Warrior 41 He was so weary he just let the men bunch up. They'd all had it.
1962 A. Tully Capitol Hill (2012) xix. 302 ‘It's only eleven-thirty.’ ‘I know, darling, but I'm afraid I've had it.’
1993 P. Smallacombe Coronation Street (Granada TV rehearsal script) 22 Sept. 35 Betty: (Flopping down onto an alcove seat ) I for one have had it. Bet can see how tired Betty really is.
2005 Horse June 51/3 I'm not a night owl, and by 9pm I've had it.
(d) To be unable to tolerate something or someone any longer; to have had enough. Frequently with with, up to here with. Cf. sense 17b.
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1949 M. P. Quigley Tent on Corsica v. 75 I'll tell you, Ed, I'm not going to fly any more. I've had it!
1971 J. Killens in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 58 I mean, I'd had it, for a time, with that traveling-is-broadening shit.
2010 Independent 1 Jan. 9/2 People have had it up to here with drunken idiots who ruin other people's nights.
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