| 单词 | an ounce of good luck is worth a pound of wisdom |
| 释义 | > as lemmasan ounce of good luck is worth a pound of wisdom P4. Proverb. an ounce of good luck is worth a pound of wisdom and variants.Compare more common parallels at ounce n.1 1c. ΚΠ 1696 J. Ray Nomenclator Classicus 77 An Ounce of Good Luck is worth a Pound of Wisdom. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. x. 258 A pound of good luck is worth a tun of merit [Sp. y aquí entra y encaja bien el decir que hay buena y mala fortuna en las pretensiones]. 1989 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 1 May We're not particularly a wet-weather team... An ounce of good luck in those conditions is better than 10 tons of good management. < as lemmas |
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