| 单词 | a watched pot never boils |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa watched pot never boils P9. a watched pot never boils and variants: time feels longer when you're waiting for something to happen. ΚΠ c1778 B. Franklin Paris vii. 926 Another Breakfast is ordered... I was very Hungry; it was so late; ‘a watched pot is slow to boil,’ as Poor Richard says. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. xiv. 184 What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils. 1880 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot xxxviii Don't you know that vulgar old proverb that says that ‘a watched pot never boils’? 1940 C. Boothe Europe in Spring x ‘He [sc. Mussolini] is waiting to see how the next battle turns out,’ they said... ‘A watched pot never boils,’ they said—only this one finally did. 2005 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 25 Apr. 1 It was like the watched pot that never boils. You were waiting and waiting for them to do something right. < as lemmas |
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