单词 | he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day |
释义 | > as lemmashe who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day a. Proverb. he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day and variants. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 335v That same manne, that renneth awaye, Maye again fight, an other daye.] 1711 C. L. H. Villars Noise about Nothing 1 Should Marlborough..from his army run away, to live to fight another day. 1809 Rambler's Mag. 4 Jan. 2 Unlike those heroes Who fight, and run away, And live to fight another day. 1905 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 5 852 The Panama officer..believed that ‘He who runs away will live to fight another day.’ 2003 Sunday Express (Nexis) 7 Dec. 41 Presumably he [sc. the Prime Minister] is working on the basis that he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day. < as lemmas |
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