| 释义 |
plain dealer, plain-ˈdealer Now rare.
[f. plain a.1 + dealer: cf. next.]
One who deals plainly; one who is straightforward and candid in his relations with others.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxxiv. 10 Rather..than God will disappoynt the rightuous and playndealers of their needful foode. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 40 Being plaine dealers, voide of dissimulation. 1676Wycherley Pl. Dealer Prol., I the Plain Dealer am to act to-day..An honest man who..speaks what he thinks. a1735Arbuthnot John Bull (1755) 3 Sir Humphry Polesworth, I know you are a plain-dealer;..speak the truth, and spare not. |