| 单词 | everybody's business is nobody's business |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseverybody's business is nobody's business P2. Proverb. everybody's business is nobody's business and variants. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Ouvrage Euerie bodies worke is no bodies worke. 1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) ii. 72 A wise friend of mine did usually say, That which is every bodies businesse, is no bodies businesse. 1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 10 That a thing that is so much every Body's Concern, should be almost no Body's Discourse. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 18. ⁋1 Because a Thing is every Body's Business, it is no Body's Business. 1725 D. Defoe (title) Every-body's business is no-body's business. 1828 T. B. Macaulay in Edinb. Rev. Sept. 103 The business of every body is the business of nobody. 1893 Catholic World Aug. 741 The feeling that what was everybody's business was nobody's business entirely disappeared. 1944 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 38 465 It is submitted that there should be an international clearing house; otherwise what is everybody's business will tend to become nobody's business. 1998 P. Jooste Dance with Poor Man's Daughter (1999) iii. 62 People are always talking about each other around here and nobody's business is everybody's business. < as lemmas |
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