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单词 to take one's own sweet time
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to take one's own sweet time
d. Dear to the person himself; usually sarcastically, ‘pet’, ‘precious’: chiefly qualifying self or will. at one's own sweet will: just as one likes. Also in phrases to bet one's sweet life, to take one's own sweet time, to go one's own sweet way, and variants.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [adjective] > relating to self > belonging to oneself, itself, etc. > dear to the person himself
sweet1659
the mind > will > wish or inclination > [adverb]
to one's willOE
by one's willOE
self-willesOE
after a person's willOE
a-willc1275
at willc1300
at one's (own) liberty1426
ad placituma1556
at pleasure1579
ad libitum1606
arbitrarilya1626
arbitrariously1653
discretionally1655
ad arbitrium1663
voluntarily1676
discretionarily1681
antecedently1682
discretionary?1707
ad lib1791
at one's own sweet will1802
at choice1817
at no allowance1858
1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 49 Let us not so far wrong the Jesuites, as to rob them of their sweet Positions and practice in that very point.
1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. v. 61 Bid him go home, of his sweet self take care.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) II. 401 Nor yet need he be too secure against all damage to his own sweet person.
1802 W. Wordsworth Composed upon Westm. Bridge in Misc. Sonn. 12 The river glideth at his own sweet will.
1846 Ld. Tennyson Lit. Squabbles iii The petty fools of rhyme..Who..strain to make an inch of room For their sweet selves.
1862 J. G. Whittier Amy Wentworth 151 Love has never known a law Beyond its own sweet will.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets xi. 344 The monk Planudes..remodelled the Greek Anthology of Cephalas at his own sweet will.
1889 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea II. xxxii. 110 The younger ones [sc. Mormons]..will mix with the Gentile..and you bet your sweet life there's a holy influence working toward conversion in the kiss of an average Gentile.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §54/3 Not hurry..take one's (own) sweet time.
1945 A. Kober Parm Me 85 You betcha sweet life I'll give you a buzz.
1946 Civil & Mil. Gaz. (Lahore) 19 July 6/4 The station authorities..took their own sweet time in handing the driver the token for him to proceed on his journey.
a1966 M. Allingham Cargo of Eagles (1968) iv. 52 I let him pass, making sure he'd turn off, but not on your sweet life. He was right with me all the way.
1970 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird vii. 105 You go your own sweet way, or so the evidence tells me.
1975 D. Delman One Man's Murder ii. 49 So you're finally here... You took your own sweet time about it.
1976 H. MacInnes Agent in Place xi. 120 Katie has complicated everything in her own sweet way.
1978 ‘G. Vaughan’ Belgrade Drop v. 33 If one single person's seen you get on this lorry..you can bet your sweet life they'll turn it inside out.
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