perhaps

a little later, perhaps

Not today or right at this moment. A: "What do you say we go and hit the bars?" B: "A little later, perhaps, on a day when I'm not feeling so tired." A: "Would you like to review the notes?" B: "A little later, perhaps. Let's focus on re-calibrating the device, first."

perhaps a little later

Not today or right at this moment. A: "What do you say we go and hit the bars?" B: "I'm a bit too tired for any drinking today, but perhaps a little later on in our trip." A: "Would you like to review the notes?" B: "Perhaps a little later. Let's focus on re-calibrating the device, first."

Perhaps a little later.

Not now, but possibly later. Waiter: Would you like your coffee now? Bob: Perhaps a little later. Waiter: All right. Sally: Hey, Bill, how about a swim? Bob: Sounds good, but not now. Perhaps a little later. Sally: Okay. See you later.

See also: later, little, perhaps

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

See also:

not for a moment
not for a second
not for a minute
aint
ain't
not for a/one minute/moment/second/instant
not for a instant
by no means
not by any means
(I) hope not

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释义	perhaps a little later, perhaps Not today or right at this moment. A: "What do you say we go and hit the bars?" B: "A little later, perhaps, on a day when I'm not feeling so tired." A: "Would you like to review the notes?" B: "A little later, perhaps. Let's focus on re-calibrating the device, first." See also: little, perhaps perhaps a little later Not today or right at this moment. A: "What do you say we go and hit the bars?" B: "I'm a bit too tired for any drinking today, but perhaps a little later on in our trip." A: "Would you like to review the notes?" B: "Perhaps a little later. Let's focus on re-calibrating the device, first." See also: later, little, perhaps Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. Perhaps a little later. Not now, but possibly later. Waiter: Would you like your coffee now? Bob: Perhaps a little later. Waiter: All right. Sally: Hey, Bill, how about a swim? Bob: Sounds good, but not now. Perhaps a little later. Sally: Okay. See you later. See also: later, little, perhaps McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: not for a moment not for a second not for a minute aint ain't not for a/one minute/moment/second/instant not for a instant by no means not by any means (I) hope not References in periodicals archive But perhaps we should stop castigating the main offenders - and start feeling sorry for them, instead. The madness of football - no easy cure If retailers within a city centre, for example, have to address the problem of customers migrating to pastures new simply as a means of avoiding parking charges, despite public transport offering a viable alternative, then perhaps the time is right for the out-of-town shopping malls to impose an appropriate cost for "free parking". Letter: YOUR SHOUT - Charge drivers, shopping malls PERHAPS, AS SOME HAVE SAID, THE ANGRY GHOST OF A STEEL WORKER WHOSE BODY WAS WELDED INTO THE HULL OF THE TITANIC WAS EXACTING REVENGE. Solving a Titanic mystery Language is where the book's syncretism is perhaps most salient. Lydia Cabrera. Afro-Cuban Tales Better and more sophisticated measurements are useful and very necessary, but the role of chance with respect to uncertain (and perhaps unknowable) thresholds and contingencies is ever-present and profound. Katrina, Wilma and me: learning to live with climate surprises? That year--starting in September 1996--is a crucial period in Hartcher's account, perhaps the only time that Greenspan could have raised interest rates without harming the economy. Irrational annoyance: there are many things to blame Alan Greenspan for. The '90s stock bubble isn't one of them So you hear people speak of "native plants" in the landscape and perhaps you imagine that they are describing the empty, lot near your house, all tangled up in multiflora rose and Asian bittersweet. Transform your yard with native plants What we have been watching unfold on our TV screens each evening are perhaps, as Steyn suggests, the "opening shots in the forthcoming war of Eurabia." Whether the recent violence is merely a skirmish, or a trial run, or part of a sustained and steady European "intifada," is too early to say. So what is really going on in France? She is helped by a mysterious creature, Ay Pook, perhaps a witch, perhaps a forest goddess named Yanasa, perhaps a vicious jungle cat who attacks Raul. Haycak, Cara. Red Palms Perhaps the delicate//spider will catch a black fly, or a moth./Perhaps midge or brown darter.//But in that chaotic beauty of web, the light/geometry of thread and wind,//there is more. Riverfall Psychoanalysts remind us that the really big people in our lives are our parents; perhaps our grandparents are even bigger. Miki Carmi: Stux Gallery Perhaps your first position might be as a committee member or a representative on the executive board. Professional involvement But if I say I don't like tomatoes and that liking tomatoes is not only wrong but a sin against good taste that makes me sick to the stomach, this may perhaps be true-who can tell the vagaries of allergy?--but it's still not viable as an opinion cast in iron. Attitudes I took the evidence to indicate that perhaps we can't just assume that increased choice means increased freedom. Consumer vertigo Perhaps the most disheartening story was that of a bassoonist who landed a three-year position in the New World Symphony immediately after graduation. Reshaping dreams: "a life with music" or "a life in music"?
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