| 词组 | as large as life |
| 释义 | Idiom as large as life British, American & Australian, American if you say that someone was somewhere as large as life, you mean that you were surprised to see them there.I looked up from my paper and there he was, as large as life, Tim Taylor! as large as lifePresent before someone, often surprisingly so. Oh, I saw grandma today. I turned the corner at the grocery store, and there she was, as large as life! *large as lifeFig. in person; actually, and sometimes surprisingly, present at a place. (*Also: as ~.) I thought Jack was away, but there he was as large as life. Jean was not expected to appear, but she turned up large as life. large as lifeAlso, larger than life. See big as life. large as lifeBRITISH, AMERICAN orbig as lifeAMERICANIf you say that someone is somewhere, large as life, you mean that you are surprised and sometimes shocked to see them there. And now she was back, large as life, to claim her inheritance. Amos walked big as life into the diner and took his time over the menu. large as life(of a person) conspicuously present. informalThis expression was originally used literally, with reference to the size of a statue or portrait relative to the original: in the mid 18th century Horace Walpole described a painting as being ‘as large as the life’. The humorous mid 19th-century elaboration of the expression, large as life and twice as natural , used by Lewis Carroll and others, is still sometimes found; it is attributed to the Canadian humorist T. C. Haliburton ( 1796–1865 ). (as) large as ˈlife(humorous) used of somebody who is seen in person, often unexpectedly: I thought she’d left the country, but there she was, large as life, in the supermarket! |
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