英语词汇“new brooms sweep clean”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. absol. or intransitive; also often said of the broom, esp. in prov. new brooms sweep clean.

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c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 186 W[oman] with besome sweputh.

c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 922 She gan the hous to dighte..Preyynge the chambreres..To hasten hem, and faste swepe and shake.

1495 Coventry Leet Bk. 565 That all persones þat haue shopes..shall swep & make clene wekely before theire shopes.

1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. A.viii^v New broome swepeth cleane, in the clene swepers hande.

1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 16^v The besome..wherewith the woman swept.

1656 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1897) III. 261 There is reason to sweepe cleane where the venom sticks soe close.

1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 376 Nasty, ill-looked fellows come in one's room to sweep.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xi. ii. 258 New brooms, they say, sweep clean!

1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons xxix There was another forge established at the bottom of Church Street, and our business grew a little slack (for new brooms sweep clean).

1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 353 I never allow my maid to go to that part of the room, but sweep and dust myself there.

单词	new brooms sweep clean
释义	> as lemmas new brooms sweep clean b. absol. or intransitive; also often said of the broom, esp. in prov. new brooms sweep clean. ΚΠ c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 186 W[oman] with besome sweputh. c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 922 She gan the hous to dighte..Preyynge the chambreres..To hasten hem, and faste swepe and shake. 1495 Coventry Leet Bk. 565 That all persones þat haue shopes..shall swep & make clene wekely before theire shopes. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. A.viii^v New broome swepeth cleane, in the clene swepers hande. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 16^v The besome..wherewith the woman swept. 1656 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1897) III. 261 There is reason to sweepe cleane where the venom sticks soe close. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 376 Nasty, ill-looked fellows come in one's room to sweep. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xi. ii. 258 New brooms, they say, sweep clean! 1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons xxix There was another forge established at the bottom of Church Street, and our business grew a little slack (for new brooms sweep clean). 1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 353 I never allow my maid to go to that part of the room, but sweep and dust myself there. extracted from sweepv. < as lemmas
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