| 单词 | frost and fraud have foul ends |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrost and fraud have foul ends P3. Proverb. frost and fraud have foul ends, frost and fraud both end in foul, and variants. ΚΠ 1615 J. Day Festivals 223 It is a treacherous kind of dealing, and far vnbeseeming a Vertuous Matron. Frost, and Fraud haue ever a fowle end. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Chesh. 177 Frost and Fraud both end in Foul. 1697 Word in Season 14 Cunning and Deceit is mean and foolish: As also that proverbial Saying truly instructs us; viz. That Frost and Fraud may hold for a time, but they will both of them have dirty ends. 1768 S. Addington Relig. & Prudential Maxims (ed. 2) 19 Frost and fraud have foul ends. 1877 Bucks Herald 7 Dec. 7/ Low meadows, upon which cattle should not now be turned, at least after frost—for, as the old saying has it, ‘frost and fraud end in dirt.’ 2013 @SainathJewels 27 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Mar. 2021) Frost and fraud both end in evil. Hv a sweet dayyyy. < as lemmas |
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