单词 | in wine is truth |
释义 | > as lemmasin wine is truth b. there is truth in wine (also †in wine is truth) and variants: a person says what he or she really feels, or shows his or her true self, when under the influence of alcohol.More popularly used in the Latin form in vino veritas phr. ΚΠ 1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes (new ed.) sig. H5v In wyne is trouthe.] 1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 196v This Prouerbe is verified. Truth is Wine. 1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 5 Grant but the Adage true, that Truth's in Wine. 1713 J. Dunton Neck or Nothing 32 To be sure there is Truth in Wine; for Drunken Harry no sooner gets into a Reeling Sickness, but we straight hear of the Rich Diamond that the French Tyrant gave him. 1786 R. Polwhele tr. Theocritus Idyllia & Epigrams 212 Since, ‘Truth's in Wine’, my dearest Youth, We mellow Souls should speak the Truth. 1800 Sporting Mag. Oct. 42 Ye Topers, who dip in the nectar divine, Of dipping be careful—for truth is in wine. 1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right II. li. 11 There is no saying truer than that which declares that there is truth in wine. 1958 J. H. Miller C. Dickens (1970) i. 25 There is truth in wine... Drink merely brings out Pickwick in all his innate benevolence. 2009 Daily Tel. (Austral.) 1 Jan. 51/1 If there is truth in wine, as the Latin proverb in vino veritas suggests, then those listening to..Socrates must have learned a few homegrown ones. For he could..drink you under the table. < as lemmas |
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