| 单词 | what is —— coming to? |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhat is —— coming to? 7. intransitive. what is —— coming to? and variants: used as a rhetorical expression of dismay, disgust, or incredulity at a perceived deterioration in the state or condition of ——. Also occasionally what is coming to ——?. Cf. what is the world coming to? at world n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > expression of dismay [phrase] what is —— coming to?1656 1656 tr. M. Maier Themis Aurea xix. 130 O harsh times, O evill manners! what is the world come to when slanders shall pass for Truths? 1693 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master (ed. 2) v. i. 64 How! is the World come to that? a Man cannot keep a Wench without Articles and Settlements. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses 24 'Sdeath! what am I come to, to be Affronted so by my Tradesmen? 1795 Tribune 18 Apr. 140 O what are we come to when all our calculations are employed upon pounds, shillings and pence. 1834 Mirror of Parl. (2nd Sess., 11th Parl.) 3 2655/1 Good God! What have we come to? This is really worse than any Tory Government I have ever witnessed. 1863 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Mar. 555/1 Are you going to turn curmudgeon, too..? I don't know what's coming to the world! 1886 Secular Rev. 19 June 395/1 What are things coming to when a large and influential daily newspaper..ventures to write thus of such an anti-Christ as Saladin? 1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. (1910) xxii. 270 I don't know what's coming to women nowadays... I never used to have any trouble with them. 1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xxii. 275 What was she come to? She, Margaret Messenger, renowned throughout the country for her mental and moral pulchritude, had descended to the level of a drab. 1938 ‘G. Graham’ Swiss Sonata 182 What's this school coming to? 2003 K. Kwei-Armah Elmina's Kitchen ii. i. 51 When man have party people suppose to dance, not stand up and chat. What de arse this generation coming to? < as lemmas |
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