| 单词 | misfortunes never come singly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmisfortunes never come singly [Compare Middle French ung meschief ne vient point seul (14th cent.).] In various proverbial uses, esp. misfortunes never come singly. ΚΠ 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxxxvi For wyse men sayth, and oft it fallyth so..That one myshap fortuneth neuer alone.] 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Malheur One misfortune succeeds in the necke of another. 1622 J. Mabbe in tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 29 (margin) Misfortunes seldome come alone. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 28 Let the Fault or Misfortune be what, or whence it will. 1717 G. Redpath in Burns Mem. Wodrow (1838) I. p. vii Which is not our crime but our misfortune. 1717 J. Addison tr. Ovid Metamorphoses iii, in Poet. Misc.: 5th Pt. 521 You'll find it a Misfortune, not a Fault. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxii. 117 Misfortunes, saith the adage, never come singly. 1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. iii. 83 The overabundance of leisure..is often a misfortune rather than a fault. 1931 L. Charteris Wanted for Murder v. 298 Blessings, like misfortunes, never come singly. There was even a packet of Havana cigarettes..tucked away behind the bath salts. 1981 G. Mitchell Death-cap Dancers v. 54 ‘The car..skidded and hit the tree.’ ‘Misfortunes never come singly.’ < as lemmas |
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