单词 | if you don't work, you don't eat |
释义 | > as lemmasif you don't work, you don't eat P3. Proverb. those that will not work shall not eat and variants (now often if you don't work, you don't eat). [Originally in biblical references and allusions, after post-classical Latin si quis non vult operari, nec manducet, lit. ‘if someone does not want to work, he will not eat’ (Vulgate: 2 Thessalonians 3:10) and its model Hellenistic Greek εἴ τις οὐ θέλει ἐργάζεσθαι, μηδὲ ἐσθιέτω (New Testament); compare quots. c1384 and 1535, respectively. Compare Middle French qui ne laeure point ne mengue point (1376).] Π OE Wulfstan tr. Amalarius De Regula Canonicorum (1957) 193 Se apostol..cwæð: Qui non uult operari nec manducet. Þæt is, se ðe nyt beon nelle, he æniges godes ne abite.] c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Thess. iii. 10 This thing we denounsiden, or warneden, to ȝou, for if ony man wole not worche, nether ete he. c1450 (?c1425) St. Mary of Oignies i. xii. in Anglia (1885) 8 148 Ententynge þat þe apostel seiþ, ‘whoo so wirkith not, ete he not’. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Thess. iii. B Yf there were eny which wolde not worke, ye same shulde not eate. 1595 W. Burton Rowsing of Sluggard i. 5 The Apostle warneth the Thessalonians, that if any amongst them were able to worke and would not worke, they should not eate; to shew that idle persons are not worthie to liue. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. x. 83 You must obey this now for Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled). 1684 R. Steele Trades-man's Calling i. 8 The old Canon, 2 Thess. 3. 10. That if any (let them be who, or what they will) will not work, (being capable of it) they should not eat. 1726 W. Mason Duty maintaining Publick Work-Houses 12 It is plain the Managers had Authority, and to such the Apostles had commanded not to permit any, who wou'd not work, to eat. 1798 Weekly Mag. 17 Mar. 197/2 He that will not work should not eat; or, in other words, he that gives nothing for what he receives, is an unprofitable being. 1826 tr. J. B. Massillon Select. from Wks. 171 I ought not to eat, because I do not work, but are you excused from this law? 1881 F. L. Shaw Hector 104 Those who do not work should not eat. Do you suppose that a good dinner would be put upon this table..if others had not worked? 1908 Union Seminary Mag. Feb. 197 Amongst the animals beneath man it seems to be true..that he that will not work shall not eat. 1919 I. Zangwill in Soviet Russia 20 Sept. 16/1 Bolshevism is not the scourge it first seemed... Who can object to a Constitution, one of whose first articles declares that ‘He who will not work shall not eat’? 1993 R. B. Edgerton Cloak of Competence (rev. ed.) iii. 94 We used to bitch about the food in that hospital, but out here, if you don't work you don't eat nothing at all. 2008 P. McGraw Real Life vi. 142 I grew up poor... So I learned real fast that if you don't work, you don't eat. < as lemmas |
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