词组 | when it’s at home |
释义 | when it’s at home used to intensify any question of identity UK, 1957 A derisive tag implying contempt or incredulity, suffixed to “what is a ..?”. The earliest usages of this scornful device were grammatically correct: “[W]here your friends are when they’re at home?” (Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills, 1888). Current usage, however, will occasionally reform a sentence that should commence correctly with “who is…?” by converting the proper noun to object status, e.g. “What is a John Smith when it’s at home?”.
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