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单词 march comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
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March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
c. In proverbs and proverbial phrases; esp. March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. See also March hare n. at Compounds 2, March wind n. at Compounds 1a.
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1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd (new ed.) iii. sig. K March faire al, for a faire March, is worth a kings ransome.
1612 A. Hopton Concordancy of Yeares xxx. 103 Some say, so many mistes in March, so many hoare frosts after Easter.
a1625 J. Fletcher Wife for Moneth ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gggggg2/2 Me. I would chuse March, for I would come in like a Lion. To. But you'ld go out like a Lamb, when you went to hanging.
a1633 G. Herbert Outlandish Prov. (1640) sig. D2v February makes a bridge and March breakes it.
1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 44 March many weathers.
1693 D. Leeds Almanack 7 Notes & Observations the 1st Month, March. The beginning of the first Month commonly concludes the nipping Winter, the end initiates the subsequent wellcome Spring, according to the Proverb, March cometh in like a Lyon, and goes out like a Lamb.
1770 J. Armstrong Univ. Almanac in Misc. I. 212 March many-weathers comes in.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. iv. 102 Like March, having come in like a lion, he purposed to go out like a lamb.
1906 E. B. Holden Country Diary Edwardian Lady (1977) 25 March has come in like a lamb with a warm wind..from the South-west.
1978 R. Whitlock Cal. Country Customs iii A well-known proverb is: So many mists in March, So many frosts in May.
1980 Eastern Evening News (Norwich) 3 Apr. 13 That old proverb of ‘March coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb’ proved to be quite the reverse.
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