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单词 coleworts twice sodden
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coleworts twice sodden
4. In the proverbial phrase coleworts twice sodden, applied to a statement, argument, etc. that has been presented before; ‘stale news’. Obsolete.So modern dialect ‘I don't boil my cabbages twice.’ Cf. also Scottish ‘cauld kale het again.’
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > story or news which is dull through repetition
coleworts twice sodden1577
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crambe1611
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1577 W. Fulke Answer True Christian 84 in Two Treat. against Papistes These colewortes haue bene sodden twise or thryse already.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 87v Which I must omit, least I set before you Cole-wortes twice sodden.
1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists 98 You want variety, when you send in these twise-sodde Coleworts.
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 136 It being better sometimes to use a licentious and unwarrantable motion, then alwayes to obtrude the same Coleworts.
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coleworts twice (etc.) sodden
b. In the proverbial phrase coleworts twice (etc.) sodden: (see colewort n. 4).
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the mind > language > speech > repetition > [phrase] > something repeated
coleworts twice (etc.) sodden1577
1577 W. Fulke Answer True Christian 84 in Two Treat. against Papistes These colewortes haue bene sodden twise or thryse already.
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 55v The fourth crime..is coalewortes more than tenne times sodden.
1608 S. Hieron Answere to Popish Rhyme (ed. 2) To Rdr. To redoe things once done, or to oppresse mens stomachs with twise sodden Coleworts, as the prouerb is.
1614 W. Bradshaw Unreasonableness Separation 83 Some of his own cole-worts, not twice, but twenty times sodden.
extracted from soddenadj.1n.
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