| 单词 | no good deed goes unpunished |
| 释义 | > as lemmasno good deed goes unpunished g. no good deed goes unpunished and variants: used to imply that all good deeds result in adverse or negative consequences for the person carrying out the act. Frequently ironic. ΚΠ 1938 J. Agate Diary 25 Jan. in Ego 3 275 Pavia was in great form to‐day: ‘Every good deed brings its own punishment.’ 1942 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 5 Oct. 15 No good deed goes unpunished in Washington. 1994 F. E. Abernethy Texas Folklore Soc. ii. 79 No good deed goes unpunished, and I have since had regrets. 2013 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 16 Aug. 12 He learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when he tries to help out some local teens and winds up getting jumped by a trio of gutter punks. < as lemmas |
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