| 单词 | hunger is the best cook |
| 释义 | > as lemmashunger is the best cook P3. hunger is the best cook and variants: food tastes better when one is hungry. Cf. hunger is the best kitchen at kitchen n.1 Phrases 3, hunger is the best sauce (see sauce n. Phrases 1).In early use chiefly in translations from other languages, or in contexts where this is regarded as a proverb from a language other than English. [Compare early modern German der hunger ist der best koch (1530 or earlier).] ΚΠ 1575 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians f. 155 Hunger is the best Cooke [L. Fames optimus cocus est]. 1660 J. Trapp Comm. Holy Script. (Prov. xxvii. 7) 178 Hunger is the best Cook, say the Dutch, the best sawce, say we, experience proves it so: how sweetly doth it season homely cates, coarse fare? 1785 D. MacIntosh Coll. Gaelic Prov. & Familiar Phrases 51 Hunger is a good cook. 1850 Amer. Biblical Repository Jan. 173 That hunger is a good cook has been set down to his credit for the longest possible time the world over. 1973 Addictions Summer 75 For the full enjoyment of leisure, you have to be tired first, as for the full enjoyment of food the best cook is hunger. 2018 Byron Shire Echo (Mullumbimby, New S. Wales) 4 Apr. 6/3 Professor Cohen believes we need to get back in touch with hunger... ‘My mum always said that hunger is the best cook. When you eat you really appreciate it.’ < as lemmas |
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