英语词汇“no man is a hero to his valet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P3. Proverb. no man is a hero to his valet (originally valet de chambre) and variants: no person is accorded excessive respect or admiration by someone who knows him or her in an intimate or familiar way. Frequently in extended, allusive, or similative contexts.Allusive and similative use often extends to a noun other than valet (and occasionally a noun other than man: see, for example, quot. 2008). [After French il n'y a point de héros pour son valet de chambre, attributed to Madame Cornuel (1605–94), French society hostess (in Letter 13 ‘De Paris, 1728’ in Lettres de Mlle Aïssé à Madame C (1787)), although sometimes also attributed to the Prince de Condé (see quot. 1753). Compare also Hellenistic Greek οὐ τοιαῦτα μοι ὁ λασανοϕόρος σύνοιδεν ‘the slave who looks after my chamber-pot does not think such things (i.e. does not consider me a god)’, attributed to Antigonus, King of Macedonia (4th cent. b.c.) by Plutarch ( Moralia 360 C).]

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1753 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (ed. 4) I. xvii. 170 ‘No man,’ said the prince de Condé, ‘is a hero to his Valet de Chambre.’

1776 St. James's Chron. 27 Aug. 4/1 That no Man is a Hero to his Valet de Chambre, is an old Remark newly clothed in French Frippery.

1824 J. G. Lockhart Hist. Matthew Wald xix. 224 No man is a hero to his valet; and few can play the hypocrite effectually to their doctor.

a1859 R. Choate Lect. 1833 in Wks. (1862) I. 340 As no man is a hero to his servant, so no age is heroic of which the whole truth is recorded.

1917 Princeton Alumni Weekly 24 Jan. 374/2 The French proverb, ‘No man is a hero to his valet’, might be rendered, in the language of the college world, ‘No man is a hero to his room-mate.’

1946 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 24 Nov. 18/3 If it is true that no man is a hero to his valet, it may be surmised that few men are heroes to their wives.

1986 D. N. Walton Courage ii. 51 No man is a hero to his valet, it is said, and given the kind of ubiquitous investigative reporting of public figures today, it is easy to uncover the feet of clay.

2008 Financial Times 14 Apr. 14/1 No man is a hero to his valet; and no woman is a heroine to her children's nanny.

单词	no man is a hero to his valet
释义	> as lemmas no man is a hero to his valet (originally valet de chambre) P3. Proverb. no man is a hero to his valet (originally valet de chambre) and variants: no person is accorded excessive respect or admiration by someone who knows him or her in an intimate or familiar way. Frequently in extended, allusive, or similative contexts.Allusive and similative use often extends to a noun other than valet (and occasionally a noun other than man: see, for example, quot. 2008). [After French il n'y a point de héros pour son valet de chambre, attributed to Madame Cornuel (1605–94), French society hostess (in Letter 13 ‘De Paris, 1728’ in Lettres de Mlle Aïssé à Madame C (1787)), although sometimes also attributed to the Prince de Condé (see quot. 1753). Compare also Hellenistic Greek οὐ τοιαῦτα μοι ὁ λασανοϕόρος σύνοιδεν ‘the slave who looks after my chamber-pot does not think such things (i.e. does not consider me a god)’, attributed to Antigonus, King of Macedonia (4th cent. b.c.) by Plutarch ( Moralia 360 C).] ΚΠ 1753 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (ed. 4) I. xvii. 170 ‘No man,’ said the prince de Condé, ‘is a hero to his Valet de Chambre.’ 1776 St. James's Chron. 27 Aug. 4/1 That no Man is a Hero to his Valet de Chambre, is an old Remark newly clothed in French Frippery. 1824 J. G. Lockhart Hist. Matthew Wald xix. 224 No man is a hero to his valet; and few can play the hypocrite effectually to their doctor. a1859 R. Choate Lect. 1833 in Wks. (1862) I. 340 As no man is a hero to his servant, so no age is heroic of which the whole truth is recorded. 1917 Princeton Alumni Weekly 24 Jan. 374/2 The French proverb, ‘No man is a hero to his valet’, might be rendered, in the language of the college world, ‘No man is a hero to his room-mate.’ 1946 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 24 Nov. 18/3 If it is true that no man is a hero to his valet, it may be surmised that few men are heroes to their wives. 1986 D. N. Walton Courage ii. 51 No man is a hero to his valet, it is said, and given the kind of ubiquitous investigative reporting of public figures today, it is easy to uncover the feet of clay. 2008 Financial Times 14 Apr. 14/1 No man is a hero to his valet; and no woman is a heroine to her children's nanny. extracted from heron. < as lemmas
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