| 单词 | a green winter makes a fat churchyard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa green winter (also Christmas) makes a fat churchyard Proverb. a green winter (also Christmas) makes a fat churchyard and variants: a warm winter causes many deaths. ΚΠ 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 161 A hot Christmas makes a fat Church-yard. 1710 Brit. Apollo 27–29 Nov. A Green Christmas makes a Fat Church-Yard. 1791 R. Townley Jrnl. kept Isle of Man I. 309 It is an old saying, That a green winter makes a fat church-yard. 1838 J. Comstock Tongue of Time x. 347 Dr. Rush inclined to give credence to the opinion, that a green Christmas makes a fat churchyard. 1868 T. Inman On Preserv. of Health xvii. 113 ‘I suppose this sharp, bracing air makes all your patients well, eh?’ ‘You know the old proverb—“A green winter makes a fat churchyard”,—ha ha.’ 1921 Greater N.Y. 19 Dec. 13/2 It may be that the maxim: ‘A green Winter makes a fat churchyard’, is all wrong. 1995 H. Dunmore Spell of Winter viii. 96 ‘A green winter makes a full churchyard,’ everyone said. < as lemmas |
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