单词 | to swear blind |
释义 | > as lemmasto swear blind l. to swear blind: to affirm emphatically and without qualification. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion without proof > [verb (intransitive)] > emphatically to swear blind1963 1963 J. Fowles Collector ii. 138 He swears blind that he sent the CND cheque, but I don't know. 1975 Economist 25 Jan. 72/3 The state is now to control over two-thirds of British Petroleum—but swears blind it won't behave as if it did. 1985 Byte Feb. 190/3 You can swear blind it's solving a partial differential equation and they would be hard put to prove it is not. < as lemmas |
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