单词 | true for you |
释义 | > as lemmastrue for you e. Chiefly Irish English. true for you: (commenting on what the person addressed has said) true; that is true; indeed. Also occasionally with other personal pronouns, affirming the truthfulness of the person indicated. [After Irish is fíor duit, lit. ‘(it) is true for you’ (and variants with inflections of the copula), specific use (with inflected preposition: second person singular) of is fíor do it is true for (15th cent. or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > agreement [phrase] it is a match!1569 that's right1608 true for you1765 how right you are1799 them's my sentiments1847 I should think (suppose, etc.)1861 right you are!1862 sure thing1895 you said it1911 with knobs on1930 you can say that again1932 I should coco1936 I couldn't agree more (with someone)1939 that makes two of us1956 yes please2010 1765 ‘T. Shandy’ Miss C—y's Cabinet of Curiosities viii. 14 ‘We have a purdigious immenser Stock of Fizdum than such Whagtails.’—‘That's true for you,’ answered my Lady Proudfoot. 1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 364/1 ‘It never can be broke,’ says the widdy, ‘without braking my heart’..an' thrue for her the charm wouldn't be broke, for they say that..he's the ould widdy's darlint. 1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow I. xix. 247 ‘You are Tapes, the pedler.’.. ‘True for you, captain Gilbert!’ cried the other. 1868 J. F. Maguire Irish in Amer. iii. 73 ‘Well, thank God, 'tis our own..,’ said one of the settlers; to which there was a general chorus of ‘amens,’ and ‘true for you.’ 1889 Scribner's Mag. Jan. 106/2 Twas thrue for him that we kape a dacint shop anyhow. 1900 J. Barlow From Land of Shamrock 63 They would not, thrue for you. 1980 J. O'Faolain No Country for Young Men xv. 329 You're right there... True for you. 1996 F. McCourt Angela's Ashes (1997) ii. 72 True for you, missus. You can't beat the onion boiled in milk. < as lemmas |
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