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单词 lightly come, lightly go
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lightly come, lightly go
c. lightly come, lightly go and variants: what is acquired without effort or difficulty is often as easily lost, or may be abandoned without regret; cf. easy come, easy go at easy adj., adv., and n. Additions.
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?a1475 in Ld. Clermont Wks. J. Fortescue (1869) I. 489 Thyng that lightly cometh, lightly goeth.
1624 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 251 The ding-thrift's proverb is, ‘Lightly come, lightly go’.
1833 New Monthly Mag. 38 192Lightly come, lightly go,’ is his maxim.
1938 News (Adelaide) 14 Mar. 5/2 The fellow..has no more idea of monetary values than a monkey in the zoo. It's all the same to him—lightly come, lightly go.
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