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mean business

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释义

  1. 是认真的，不是开玩笑的

    idiomatic

    Say in a week from now, I will undertake to deliver this most marvellous masterpiece, if 'Look here, 'Tony, I mean business, if you don't.

    1895, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's journal:

    Lorena Bobbit only did what men do to each other all the time: She showed an asshole she meant business.

    1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 102:

    He projects his concern to all employees and he means business when he says the “buck stops here”.

    2002, Armando T. Atienza, Shrewd Business Tactics:
词形与写法（3）
词形标注转写
means businessthird-person · singular · present
meaning businesspresent · participle
meant businesspast · participle · 簡單過去時

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