| 单词 | a little pot is soon hot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa little pot is soon hot P4. a little pot is soon hot and variants: a small person is easily roused to anger. ΚΠ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Dii And Christ wot, It is wood at a woorde, little pot soone whot. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 5 Now were not I a little pot, & soone hot. View more context for this quotation 1838 J. H. Ingraham Sieges I. I. vi. 98 Youth is ever more hasty than wise, and a little pot is soon hot. 1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) iv. ix. 238 It is an old saying that ‘a little pot is soon hot’, which was the case with William the Testy. Being a little man he was soon in a passion, and once in a passion he soon boiled over. 1930 R. K. Weekes Mignonette xxiii ‘Oh well,’ she quite obviously swallowed down her grievance, still simmering, ‘I suppose you'll say little pots are soon hot.’ < as lemmas |
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