| 单词 | to know when one is well off |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(not) to know when one is well off (not) to know when one is well off: (not) to know when one is in a favourable or advantageous situation; (not) to appreciate how fortunate one is. Also if you know when you are well off: (as a threat or warning to reinforce a direction) ‘if you know what is good for you’. ΚΠ 1722 S. Osborn Polit. & Social Lett. (1890) 24 Jack, I think, knows when he is well off, for he has taken up his rest at Danbury. a1754 H. Fielding Jrnl. Voy. Lisbon (1755) 223 A huge shark, who, not knowing when he was well off, swallowed another piece of beef. 1796 T. Morton Way to get Married i. i. 1 Why don't you go to the other inn? I'll tell you—because you know when you are well off, ha! ha! 1813 ‘H. Bull-Us’ Diverting Hist. John Bull & Brother Jonathan ii. 9 The old saying that a man don't know when he is well off. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. i. 8 She was a silly little thing, and did not know when she was well off. 1866 Rural Amer. (Utica, N.Y.) 15 Mar. 92/1 If you know when you're well off, keep your prating tongue between your teeth. 1910 Secret Service 30 Dec. 27/1 You will stop that noise if you know when you are well off. 1919 P. B. Kyne Green-pea Pirates xiv. 108 I was young an' foolish an' didn't know when I was well off. 1998 P. Lively Spiderweb (1999) iv. 41 You should know when you're well off, she said. There's plenty of mothers wouldn't give a damn. < as lemmas |
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