| 单词 | company in distress makes trouble less |
| 释义 | > as lemmascompany in distress makes trouble (also sorrow) less c. company in distress makes trouble (also sorrow) less and variants. ΚΠ 1727 T. Ruffe Old Maid's Fortune Ep. Ded. sig. A3 Remembering the other Adage, viz. that Company in Distress makes the Trouble the less. 1732 T. Fuller Gnomologia 282 Company in Distress Make the Sorrow less. 1808 F. Lathom Unknown II. i. 3 We ought to let company in distress make our trouble the less. 1879 J. J. Wray Matthew Mellowdew iii. 22 If it be a trouble that must be borne, then four can carry it easier than one... Company in distress makes the trouble less. 1920 J. Rickaby Eccl. Year xi. 189 If there is distress there, at any rate the company is interesting, and ‘company in distress makes trouble less’. 1990 J. Goodman Passing of Starr Faithfull ii. 81 Mrs Faithfull—not having intended to speak of what she and her husband had kept to themselves for four months, but suddenly feeling that company in distress would make the sorrow less—spoke of it. < as lemmas |
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