英语词汇“to look nine ways for sunday”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

> as lemmas

to look nine (also six, etc.) ways for Sunday

(b) chiefly North American to look nine (also six, etc.) ways for Sunday: to look in all directions. Also to look both ways for Sunday.

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1824 Amer. Monthly Mag. (Philadelphia) Mar. 260 The careless good for nothing feller, he's always looking about six ways for Sunday, when he's walking.

1892 ‘Q’ I saw Three Ships vii. 124 Far as I could see you've done naught but fidget like an angletwitch and look fifty ways for Sunday.

1909 Circle Nov. 234/3 Get at it and stop looking nine ways for Sunday.

1991 J. Still Wolfpen Notebks. 107 When you cross it to the mailbox, if you don't want yourself ironed out, you'd better look both ways for Sunday.

extracted from Sundayn.adv.

as lemmas

单词	to look nine ways for sunday
释义	> as lemmas to look nine (also six, etc.) ways for Sunday (b) chiefly North American to look nine (also six, etc.) ways for Sunday: to look in all directions. Also to look both ways for Sunday. ΚΠ 1824 Amer. Monthly Mag. (Philadelphia) Mar. 260 The careless good for nothing feller, he's always looking about six ways for Sunday, when he's walking. 1892 ‘Q’ I saw Three Ships vii. 124 Far as I could see you've done naught but fidget like an angletwitch and look fifty ways for Sunday. 1909 Circle Nov. 234/3 Get at it and stop looking nine ways for Sunday. 1991 J. Still Wolfpen Notebks. 107 When you cross it to the mailbox, if you don't want yourself ironed out, you'd better look both ways for Sunday. extracted from Sundayn.adv. < as lemmas
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