与 «HOW'S THAT?»相关的英语书籍
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how's that?的用法。与
how's that?相关的书籍以及同一来源的简短摘要提供其在 英语文献中的使用情境。
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How's
That Underling Thing Working Out for You?
In How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You?, Adams takes on the challenges of Elbonian sensitivity training, employee satisfaction surveys, confusopoly consultants, and more inside this new Dilbert book.
2
A Collection of Confusible Phrases
How's that? 3. is used when asking smb. to repeat what the person has just said: '
My name's Sijan.' 'How's that again?' how's that for high - = how's that I: How's
that for high, boys?' concluded the narrator, when he had told his tale. Ii ice
house ...
3
How's
that for Telling Them, Fat Lady?: A Short Life in the ...
The result is the funniest book ever written about the American theatre, a blackly comic portrait of the author and the grotesque characters he encounters on his travels.
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A Dictionary of Catch Phrases
Cf Shakespeare's Autolycus, picker-up of unconsidered trifles. how's that? See:
owsat (or owzat). how's that for high? See: how is that for high? how's that,
umpire? What have you to say about that? How about that? What price—?: since
c.
This is a newly-revised version of a book first published in paperback in 1998, which was very popular but went out of print some years ago when the original publishers ceased trading.
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Cricket and the Law: The Man in White is Always Right
The Laws also limit the form of a valid appeal: An appeal 'How's That?' shall
cover all ways of being out. As a 'puzzled foreign sportsman' once queried in a
letter to the Times on 14 July 1932, ... I could not find out why the umpire could
not ...
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Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and His Critics
The point of the "How's that?" example 85 is rather different. Appeals on the
cricket field are notoriously variable from a strictly phonetic point of view, but all
count as instantiations of How's that?, not because umpires have specially
trained ears ...
George Wolf, Nigel Love,
1997
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James Joyce, the Citizen and the Artist
How's that for high ? ** " The letter is included in Letters I, 138-9, but the version
is defective, omitting altogether 'the Elizabethan "chronicle style" '. The version in
the text is, therefore, taken from Ellmann-JJ, 489-90. In a letter to Harriet Weaver
...
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Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
... on the world way back when, the world got through it. Very slowly but surely,
enough, that some people out there can afford $8,000 dresses and have enough
spare change to buy accessories and handbags for an even How's That Again? ..
.
D. Now, that's all right, lady. I've been wanting to get a crack at this fellow (into
phone) Say, you! How's that? Yes, Mr. Ashton's down in the cellar openin' a few
bottles of booze but if there is anything you've got to say, you can say it to me.