单词 | you do the math |
释义 | > as lemmasyou do the math to do the math colloquial: to come to a conclusion based on the information given, usually with the implication that this conclusion is obvious. Frequently in imperative, esp. in you do the math. ΚΠ 1947 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. 10 (advt.) You do the math..we matched them, glen plaids to gabardines. 1968 R. Giannone Music in Willa Cather's Fiction p. viii Do the math: this old woman, almost spent by her hardscrabble years in Nebraska, must have done her training in the 1860s. 1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) iii. 63 But McCormick had done the math, and the knew that the situation could quickly reach West African proportions. 2005 M. Southgate Third Girl from Left 202 Do you think anyone that short, wearing those glasses, with those skinny, skinny legs, ever—I mean ever—had a date at Morehouse? You do the math. < as lemmas |
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