| 单词 | we'll have to see about that |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswe'll have to see about that a. Used to avoid giving an immediate answer or decision. Also we'll have to see about that. Cf. sense 23b(b). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > be ambiguous [phrase] to make one boot serve for either leg1533 we'll see about that1791 see1823 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest III. xv. 81 ‘Surely she would be better at the chateau, if she could be moved.’ ‘We will see about that,’ said her aunt. ‘In the mean time let me speak to Peter.’ 1846 G. P. R. James Step-mother I. xv. 171 ‘We will see about that, sir,’ answered Williams, ‘but there are first one or two things to be settled’. 1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ O.V.H. III. x. 236 Yes—I don't know—perhaps I'll go with you. We'll see about it. 1909 H. G. Wells Ann Veronica 1. 7 She had asked about that already, and her father had replied, evasively: ‘We'll have to see about that, little Vee.’ 1973 Oak Forest (Illinois) Star Tribune 17 May 10/2 Next year? ‘We have to see about that,’ stated Gronsman. 2014 Sun (Nexis) 17 Nov. 47 It'd be a shame not to do it again but maybe it's just not to be, we'll see about that... I'll think about it. < as lemmas |
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