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单词 good wine needs no bush
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good wine needs no bush
c. Proverb. good wine needs no bush.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Bon Good wine draws customers without any help of an iuy-bush.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) Epil. 4 If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue. View more context for this quotation
1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 168 As good Wine needs no Bush, no more do good Medicines a printed Bill.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 30 Good wine needs neither bush, herald, nor crier.
1861 W. Thornbury in Good Words 432 Faded boughs—the bush that good wine does not need—rustle over the door.
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good wine needs no (ivy)bush
new wine in old bottles (see Matthew ix. 17). to look on the wine when it is red (see Proverbs xxiii. 31). good wine needs no (ivy)bush (see also bush n.1 5c, ivy-bush n.). when wine is in, wit (or truth) is out. wine and women (Ecclus. xix. heading, King James Bible); also wine, women, and song [compare (esp. with use in quots. 1839, 1862) German Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang, der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang (‘whoever does not love wine, woman, and song remains a fool his whole life long’), frequently attributed to Luther, but not found in his writings.] extracted from winen.1
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