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单词 it's an ill wind that blows nobody good
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it's an ill wind that blows nobody good
5. Of conditions, fortune, etc.: Miserable, wretched, unfortunate, unlucky; disastrous, unfavourable, untoward, unpropitious. Prov. it's an ill wind that blows nobody good.
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a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4038 Quuo-so wile cursing maken, Ille cursing sal him taken.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. dii* Ane gude chance or ane ill.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. L An yll wynde, that blowth no man to good, men saie.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ff4v I go blindfold, whither the course of my ill happe caries me.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. iii. 11 Woe vnto the wicked, it shall be ill with him. View more context for this quotation
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 98 It was his ill fate, to be a sleepe, as old Abbas was going a hunting.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiv. 176 Ill fortune led Ulysses to our isle.
1771 E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses Salisbury Ballad 21 (note) The Church..was founded in an Ill-hour..for the Steeple was burnt down by lightening, the day after 'twas finished.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar vii. 61 Choosing an ill moment for a revolution.
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it's an ill wind that blows nobody good
Esp. in phrases (with variations: see quots.) what wind blows you here?; †all this wind shakes no corn (obsolete); it's an ill wind that blows nobody good (originally †to good: cf. 3). to raise the wind: see raise v.1 Phrases 11; to sow the wind and reap the whirlwind: see to sow the wind and reap the whirlwind at whirlwind n. 2.extracted from windn.1
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