| 单词 | to have never had it so good |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have never had it so good (b) spec. in to have never had it so good and variants: to have more advantages (esp. wealth or material possessions) than ever before; to be very fortunate or prosperous.The phrase was popularized in Great Britain following its use by the then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at a political rally (see quot. 1957) and its subsequent use as a Conservative Party slogan. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > be in easy circumstances (to eat, live on) the fat of the land1530 to be laughing1930 to have never had it so good1944 1944 Catal. Copyright Entries (U.S. Copyright Office) 39 1688/1 I never had it so good; song... Nov. 20, 1944;..Stanley Beerman, New York. 1946 Amer. Speech 21 243 You never had it so good. This is a sardonic response to complaints about the Army; it is probably supposed to represent the attitude of a peculiarly offensive type of officer. 1957 Times 22 July 4/6 [Mr. Macmillan's speech at Bedford on 20 July] Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good. 1961 C. McCullers Clock without Hands vii. 158 From then on I never had it so good. Nobody ever had it so good. 1985 N. Swain Collective Farms which Work 1 Although living standards generally are stagnating in the early 1980s, the rural population really has ‘never had it so good’. 2006 T. J. Botti Envy of World ix. 265 American wage-earners as a whole had never had it so good. < as lemmas |
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