| 单词 | what do you take me for? |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhat (also who, whom) do you take me for? (b) what (also who, whom) do you take me for?: said as a challenge to a derogatory implication, as of foolishness, dishonesty, etc. ΚΠ a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) ii. iii. 23 What do you take me for, Sir? 1684 E. Ravenscroft Dame Dobson iv. ii. 50 How! Profit! who do you take me for? There is no deceit Sir in what I perform. 1793 Sporting Mag. Oct. 55/2 Come, none of your winking, fellow, what do you take me for? 1847 A. S. Mayhew & H. Mayhew Greatest Plague of Life vii. 87 I wanted to ask her who the dickens she took me for. 1861 Mrs. H. Wood East Lynne II. ix. 136 ‘Whom do you take me for?—what do you take me for?’ she repeated, rising in her bitter mortification. 1892 R. Kipling & W. Balestier Naulahka xvii. 202 ‘You won't get the chance,’ said Tarvin unshakenly... ‘What do you take me for?’ 1912 C. Mackenzie Carnival xxx. 293 ‘What do you take me for?’ enquired Irene. ‘I take you for what you are—a rotter.’ 1927 W. S. Maugham Constant Wife iii. 186 But, my poor John, whom do you take us for? Am I so unattractive that what I'm telling you is incredible? 1983 ‘R. B. Dominic’ Flaw in Syst. xx. 129 What do you take me for? A simp? 2005 C. H. Vaite Frangipani 99 ‘Everyone?’ she says, ‘who do you take me for?.. I only told two people.’ < as lemmas |
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