| 单词 | god sends meat, but the devil sends cooks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGod sends meat, but the devil sends cooks P2. God sends meat, but the devil sends cooks and variants: bad cooks spoil good ingredients. ΚΠ 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xi. sig. F.ivv It is a common prouerbe, God may sende a man good meate, but the deuyll may sende an euyll coke to dystrue it. 1663 ‘P. Stampoy’ Coll. Sc. Prov. 21 God sends meat, and the Devil sends Cooks. a1779 D. Garrick Poet. Wks. (1785) II. 532 Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. iii. 79 The homely proverb, that men taunt my calling with—‘God sends good meat, but the devil sends cooks’. 1988 E. Hoagland Learning to Eat Soup in Balancing Acts (1992) 292 Adage: ‘God sends meat, the Devil sends cooks’. 2011 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Oct. Not for nothing does the old saying go, ‘God sends meat and the devil sends cooks’. The brains behind mass-produced meat have made it much more difficult to find good beef. < as lemmas |
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