单词 | up to no good |
释义 | > as lemmasup to (a bit of) no good c. up to (a bit of) no good: doing something wrong. Also to get up to (a bit of) no good: to get into trouble or mischief. Cf. up adv.2 19c. ΚΠ 1823 S. Wilderspin Importance educating Infant Poor 160 I ax'd him what he was doing, and he said, nothing, mother, but I thought he was up to no good. 1879 ‘R. Elliott’ John Lyon xvii. 179 It's my belief young Winter's up to no good, and knows more then he'll tell. 1950 C. S. Lewis Let. 29 Sept. (2007) III. 56 Pushkin is up to a bit of no good in the neighbour's gardens. a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 30 Me, Nogood Boyo, up to no good in the wash-house. 1958 L. A. G. Strong Treason in Egg x. 183 The pair of them were up to quite a bit of no good. 1970 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 23 July 6/4 Car thieves were getting up to no good outside her house. 1974 W. Foley Child in Forest i. xi. 120 Sure enough, when the kids were asleep, them two sneaked out to get up to no good wi' a couple of men in the ferns. 1997 R. Boylan Killoyle x. 66 He used to say something very like that when we kids were getting up to a bit of no good. 2006 F. Kiernan & G. Hemphill Still Game: Scripts I. v. 142 I caught Tam and Eric up to no good in the foyer. < as lemmas |
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