| 单词 | comparisons are odious |
| 释义 | > as lemmascomparisons are odious 6. Proverb. comparisons are odious. ΚΠ c1430 J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep 204 Odyous of olde been comparisonis, And of comparisonis engendyrd is haterede. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 18v Least [= lest] comparisons shoulde seeme odious. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. v. 15 Comparisons are odorous. View more context for this quotation 1635 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 36 Though Comparisons bee ever harsh, and most times odious. 1724 J. Swift Let. to Molesworth 2 Comparisons were odious. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk i. xi. 247 Comparisons are odious, because they are impertinent..making one thing the standard of another which has no relation to it. < as lemmas |
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