| 单词 | won't wash |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(it) won't wash j. figurative (colloquial) To bear trial or investigation, stand the test, find acceptance, prove to be genuine, reliable. Chiefly in (it) won't wash. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (intransitive)] > be proved to be provec1300 verifya1387 approve1587 improve1612 bear1710 to turn up1756 to turn out1780 wash1849 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. vii. 178 That willn't wash, Miss. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. ii. 256 He's got pluck somewhere in him. That's the only thing after all that'll wash, ain't it. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xvi. 144 The men,—and the women too,—who are so..soft-natured, so kind,..—it so often turns out that they won't wash. 1881 Ld. Acton Lett. to M. Gladstone (1904) 99 The defect of the argument is that it will neither wear nor wash. 1911 Spectator 21 Oct. 643/1 He was not to be taken in by plausibilities that ‘wouldn't wash’. < as lemmas |
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