| 单词 | no meat for mowers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasno meat (also morsel) for mowers ΚΠ 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 342 Lais an harlot of Corinthe of excellent beautie, but so dere & costely, that she was no morsell for mowyers. 1552 H. Latimer Serm. Septuagesima (1584) f. 322v Therefore it [sc. a parable] may well be called hard meate, not meate for mowers nor ignorant people. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxviii. 180 To hope for hie mariages, is good meat, but not for mowers. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Eeii Marmalet is no meat for mowers, nor pleasure a pastime for distressed men. < as lemmas |
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