单词 | you're another! |
释义 | > as lemmasyou're another! P2. colloquial. you're another! and variants: used to apply in return an accusation to the person who first makes it (cf. tu quoque n.); also used humorously as a meaningless or vaguely contemptuous retort. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > answer [phrase] > as retort you're another!a1556 a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. v. sig. F.ij If it were an other but thou, it were a knaue. M. Mery. Ye are an other your selfe, sir. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. vi. 359 ‘You mistake me, Friend..I only said your Conclusion was a Non Sequitur.’ ‘You are another,’ cries the Serjeant. View more context for this quotation 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xv. 150 ‘Sir,’ said Mr. Tupman, ‘you're a fellow’. ‘Sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick, ‘you're another!’ 1882 Boston Lit. World 3 June 184/3 The argument of it is simply ‘You're another’—a retort in dignified manner to those British critics who [etc.]. 1915 Watson's Mag. Oct. 341/1 Unless we go by the record, we are left to the folly of saying week after week, ‘You're a liar!’ and ‘you're another!’ 2008 J. Drake Flint & Silver (2009) xlii. 287 ‘Bastard!’ said Cameron. ‘And you're another!’ said Skillit. < as lemmas |
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