| 单词 | great boast and small roast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat boast and small roast P3. †great boast and small roast and variants: boastful talk lacking in substance; also in proverbial phrases. Obsolete. ΚΠ ?1536 R. Copland Hye Way to Spyttell Hous sig. Eii There is none wors Than is a proude herte and a beggers purs Grete boost and small roost. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Div Great boste and smal roste, Maketh vnsauery mouthes. 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. v. viii. 549 Here is muche a doo, and as some saie, greate boste, and smal roste: many wordes, little matter. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. f. 335v But yet this great boast maketh but small roast, and serueth as litle to this present cause. 1601 N. Breton Wits Private Wealth (new ed.) sig. C3 Great boast and small roast, makes a colde Kitchin. 1653 H. Cogan tr. N. N. Scarlet Gown 84 To speak without passion, there was much boast, but little rost. < as lemmas |
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