| 单词 | bad news travels fast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbad news travels fast a. In various proverbial phrases expressing the idea that bad news tends to circulate quickly (or more quickly than good news). Now esp. in bad news travels fast. ΚΠ 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 91 Euill newes neuer commeth to late [Port. La mala nueua nunca llega tarde]. 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. B2v Euill newes flie faster still than good. 1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis ii. 3 Ill News is wing'd with Fate, and flies apace. 1806 Lady's Monthly Museum June 382 They say, ‘bad news travels fast’; and I have sad tidings, indeed, to relate. 1909 P. G. Wodehouse Mike (1919) xxvi. 144 Bad news spreads quickly. By the..next day the facts concerning Wyatt and Mr. Wain were public property. 2006 Sunday Territorian (Austral.) (Nexis) 4 June 20 Bad news travels fast but good news finds it difficult to travel at all. < as lemmas |
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