| 单词 | to take it or leave it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take it or leave it a. to take it or leave it and variants: used to express indifference as to whether something, esp. an offer, is accepted or rejected. Frequently used imperatively to indicate that an offer one has made is not negotiable and that one is indifferent to another’s reaction to it. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choice [phrase] > expression of indifference to take it or leave it?1555 ?1555 M. Coverdale tr. Hope of Faythful Pref. ☛.iiiv Who knoweth but ye flesh in this lyfe, why shold he not thinke, as good take it as leaue it. 1589 J. Thorie tr. B. Filippe Counseller 54 It is the propertie of counsaile, that he who asketh it, may take it or leaue it. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone ii. ii. sig. E2 Sixe crownes is the price; and lesse, in curtesie, I know you cannot offer mee: take it, or leaue it . View more context for this quotation 1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo 678 Really it must be so, Reader; take it, or leave it. ?1709 tr. Laws Hanse Towns in A. Justice Gen. Treat. Dominion of Sea (new ed.) 205 The Owners may take it or leave it at the Price it was apprais'd at, as they think fit. 1762 J. Wesley Let. 21 May (1931) IV. 182 As to that particular expression, ‘Dying at the feet of mercy’, I have only farther to add, I do not care as it is not a scriptural phrase, whether anyone takes or leaves it. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. x. 169 I will give forty [pistoles] at a word; take them or leave them! 1898 W. S. Churchill in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1967) I. Compan. ii. 917 The tremendous & unchallenged power of the Trust—enabled it to dictate wages to its workmen & prices to its customers. ‘Take it or leave it’ it said ‘This is a free country.’ Thereat the oil-mechanic had to accept the offered wage or find another trade and the customer to buy the oil at the offered price or wait in the dark. 1930 D. H. Lawrence Assorted Articles 75 The hen knows she is unanswerable... There it is, take it or leave it! 1953 A. Upfield Murder must Wait xi. 105 I cock a snook at you... You can take it or leave it. 1977 P. G. Winslow Witch Hill Murder ii. xv. 206 I didn't want to..say I'd gotten married and he could take it or leave it, because I was afraid he'd leave it. 2003 J. Murray Jazz iii. 49 An off-duty policeman offered him either a broken cigarette or a kick up the arse, take it or leave it. < as lemmas |
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