| 单词 | children and chicken should always be picking |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschildren and chicken should always be picking (also †eating) a. children and chicken should always be picking (also †eating) and variants: children and chickens should eat as much food as they like in order to grow rapidly. Now rare and regional. ΚΠ 1562 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Poyntes Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. 38 Yong children & chickens would euer be eating, good seruauntes looke duely for gentle entreating. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxiii. 195 Wherfore in youth especially while we are in growing, we should feede more largely, and nature it selfe doth as it appeareth in children. For (as it is saide) Children and chicken, would be alwaies picking. 1742 J. Hurlock Pract. Treat. Dentition viii. 169 Those, who fondly attached to that weak, but prevailing Maxim.., viz. Children, like Chicken, are always a picking; make it a general Rule of Conduct..in giving whatever the Stomach seems to bear, and that as often as it can be received. 1929 Folk-lore 40 123 Children should always be allowed the food they want. ‘Children and chicken, Should always be picken.’ 2018 @adoolan34 1 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) An elderly friend has a saying; ‘Children and chickens are always pickin’! < as lemmas |
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