| 单词 | too —— for anything |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoo —— for anything P9. colloquial. too —— for anything: extremely, excessively ——. Cf. too —— for words at word n. and int. Phrases 1d. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely or excessively out of (also over, without) measure1340 with a pestilence1594 too —— for anything?a1832 ?a1832 F. Trollope Notebks. in Domest. Manners Amer. (1949) App. A. 428 Too hot for anything. Too bad for anything. 1835 Finesse I. xiii. 213 Never saw such a flirtation in my life—I declare it is too bad for any thing. 1894 J. C. Harris in Los Angeles Times 23 Dec. 21/5 The young lady said I was too prissy for anything. 1925 G. K. Chesterton Tales of Long Bow viii. 281 ‘Really,’ she said, laughing, ‘you are too ridiculous for anything.’ < as lemmas |
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