| 单词 | fire is a good servant but a bad master |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire is a good servant but a bad master b. [Compare Middle French a tel seigneur, tel varlet (14th cent.).] Proverbs. like master, like man and variants; fire is a good servant but a bad master and variants.For additional proverbs, see M. P. Tilley Dict. Proverbs Eng. 16th & 17th Cent. (1950). ΚΠ ?1503–5 H. Watson tr. Valentine & Orson (1937) 317 A disloyall traytoure named Galeran whiche had serued him longe, for suche mayster suche servaunt. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 120v Suche maystre suche man. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. at Similes A lewd servaunt with an yll master..Lyke master lyke man. 1554 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. xxiii. 190 The old proverbe is true..‘such a master, such a servant’. 1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. 47 in Bulwarke of Defence Fire and water, are good seruauntes, but euill maisters. 1615 T. Adams Englands Sicknes sig. D2v The world, like fire, may be a good seruant, will bee an ill Master. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 178 He crossed the Proverb, like Master, like Man, the Patron being Cruel, the Chaplain Kinde. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. viii. sig. Dd4v Fire and Water, they cannot be so good Servants, but that they are worse Masters. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables xxxviii. 38 Fire and Water,..are Good Servants, but Bad Masters. 1808 J. Adams Wks. (1851) VI. 533 Like fire, they [sc. the aristocracy] are good servants, but all-consuming masters. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. vi. 73 Oh, man—fire, fire! A good master and a bad servant is fire, fire!—I mane a bad servant and a good master. Oh, Mark Clark—come! 1960 Woman's Illustr. 16 July 15 ‘It sounds to me,’ said Sarah, slowly and with spirit, ‘a case of like master—like man.’ 1973 J. Caird Murder Remote xx. 201 Is not whisky the wonderful thing? But like fire, like fire—a good servant but a bad master. < as lemmas |
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