单词 | it's all fun and games until someone |
释义 | > as lemmasit's all fun and games until someone —— b. it's all fun and games until someone —— (and variants): used to warn someone (originally and especially a child) that a situation which starts well or appears to be enjoyable has hidden dangers, and is likely to end badly. Often in it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye (also gets hurt). ΚΠ 1988 Sunday Free Press (Winnipeg) 20 Nov. 19/2 Whatever happened to the warnings our mothers issued when we played with rubber bands? (‘it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye’). 1989 Corks & Curls (Univ. Virginia) (Law School ed.) 101 103/2 Watching police officers try to weed out underage drinkers added a new dimension to the live entertainment, and the phrase ‘It's all fun and games until somebody loses their date,’ characterized conversations throughout the day. 1995 J. O'Connor You're Grounded for Life! xxxiv. 131 Regarding my personal schemes and those of my brother and sisters.., my dad always told us, ‘It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt’. 2005 Times 15 Feb. 7 East Londoners beware: the 2012 Olympic bid is all fun and games until someone loses their home. 2015 Sun (Nexis) 24 Oct. 33 The..Twitter snap [to promote a safer fireworks night] showed bone sticking out from mangled fingers with a caption saying: ‘It's all fun and games till someone gets hurt.’ < as lemmas |
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