| 单词 | all cats are grey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasall cats are grey (in the dark) b. all cats are grey (in the dark) and variants: in some circumstances the qualities which distinguish people or things from one another become obscured and hence unimportant. ΚΠ 1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) i. v. sig. Aviv When all candels be out, all cats be grey. 1596 T. Lodge Margarite of Amer. sig. H2v All cattes are grey in the darke (said Calandra). 1639 J. Taylor Iuniper Lect. xi. 88 All Cats be grey in the darke, and Joane is as good as my Lady. 1654 Trag. Alphonsus iii. 38 By night all Cats are gray, and in the dark, She will imbrace thee for the Prince of Wales. 1713 J. Gay Wife of Bath iii. 33 All Cats are gray, when Light is away. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 67 My comfit is, he new not which was which; and, as the saying is, all cats in the dark are grey. 1809 E. S. Barrett Setting Sun I. 80 All Cats are grey in the dusk. 1833 Lady's Mag. Feb. 65/1 I will rob the place; and, as all cats are grey in the dark, leave Mark to be secured as the thief. 1887 Cosmopolitan Jan. 313/2 In the dark all cats look gray. 1950 A. Jacobsohn & P. S. Jacobsohn tr. W. Röpke Social Crisis of our Time ii. i. 155 Just as certainly a leaden atmosphere of grey proletarian uniformity will pervade the whole country..; we shall then have uniform dusk in which ‘all cats look grey’. 2004 P. L. Berger Questions of Faith ix. 129 If one neglects the then in favor of the now, religion..becomes a night in which all cats are grey—anything goes. < as lemmas |
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