单词 | to mean business |
释义 | > as lemmasto mean business P12. colloquial. to mean business: to be serious about something. ΚΠ 1841 C. H. Knox Hardness I. xi. 186 Harry struck up a great friendship with her for a time, and I think meant business. 1897 Daily News 26 Oct. 5/2 ‘We mean business’, said one of her Majesty's ministers. 1988 D. Carpenter God's Bedfellows iv. 80 Sometimes you gotta let them know you mean business, otherwise they'll treat you like dirt. 2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! v. 48 Industrial sabotage to show the big industrialists of the régime that we mean business. < as lemmas |
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