| 单词 | a fool and his money are soon parted |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa fool and his money are soon parted d. a fool and his money are soon parted. ΚΠ 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 8v A foole & his money, be soone at debate: which after with sorow, repents him to late.] 1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. xv. 1294 If they pay a penie or two pence more for the reddinesse of them..let them looke to that, a foole and his money is soone parted. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. xxxix. 43 A foole and his money is soon parted. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 174 She tossed her nose in disdain, saying, she supposed her brother had taken him into favour..: that a fool and his money were soon parted. 1898 G. B. Shaw Arms & Man II. iii. 57 A twenty leva bill! Sergius gave me that, out of pure swagger. A fool and his money are soon parted. 1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise xi. 205 Copper-plate maxims: ‘A fool and his money are soon parted,’ ‘Waste not, Want not.’ 1983 M. Grimes Anodyne Necklace ii. 13 Great wads of money had exchanged hands, passing from those of the fools who would be parted from it to the estate agents always ready to grab it. < as lemmas |
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