| 单词 | a cock crows on his own dunghill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa (also each, every, etc.) cock crows (loudest) on his own dunghill a. a (also each, every, etc.) cock crows (loudest) on his own dunghill and variants: one will always be most confident or assertive in the place or situation in which one feels most at home or at ease, or when dealing with a subject or area with which one is familiar or comfortable. Cf. a cock on his own mixen at mixen n. Phrases 1. Now rare (archaic in later use). ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 5 (MED) As Seneca seiþ, a cok is most myȝty on his dongehille [L. Gallus in proprio sterquilinio plurimum valet]. a1400 Ancrene Riwle (Pepys) (1976) 58 Men seien on englisch. Cok is kene on his owen dunge hylle. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 10050 (MED) Yt ys sayd off ffolkys Sage..How that euery whyht ys bold..At the dongel at hys gate. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Dii But he was at home there, he myght speake his will. Euery cocke is proude on his owne dunghill. 1696 tr. G. Croese Gen. Hist. Quakers 176 A Cock can Crow best upon his own Dunghil. 1755 Douglass's Summary State Brit. Settlements N.-Amer. (new ed.) I. 4 The French..are like cocks which fight best upon their own dunghil. 1872 Birmingham Daily News 23 Sept. 4/5 Mr. Cavendish Bentinck is one of those political cocks who always crow loudest on their own dunghill. 1945 Greece & Rome 14 69 He remembered that it is on his own dunghill that the cock crows loudest. 2005 A. Norton & L. McConchie Silver may Tarnish ii. 21 I heard Hogeth snort. ‘A cock crows loud on his own dunghill, let him crow quieter on another's.’ < as lemmas |
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