| 单词 | no paternoster, no penny |
| 释义 | > as lemmasno paternoster, no penny a. no penny, no paternoster: you get nothing for nothing; if you want a thing you must pay for it (originally with allusion to priests who insist on being paid for performing services). Hence no paternoster, no penny: no work, no pay. Also penny nor paternoster: neither pay nor prayers; neither love nor money. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [phrase] > nothing, no one, not any never onec1175 never ac1300 never kinsc1300 no kinsc1350 for odd or evenc1425 never anyc1522 penny nor paternoster1528 never a one1534 not a soul1568 neither top nor toe1610 no flesh1663 neither horn nor hoof1664 no sort of‥1736 no nothing1815 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [phrase] > no work, no pay no paternoster, no penny1528 1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. lxxxijv Yet thes two taught and prayed for the people as moch as oure prelates doo, with whom it goeth after the commune sayenge, no peny no Pater noster [printed uoster]. 1546 Supplic. Poor Commons sig. c.iii Theyr couetouse is growne into thys prouerbe no peny no pater noster. 1573 G. Gascoigne tr. Ariosto Supposes i. i, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 2 Pitie nor pencion, peny nor pater noster shoulde euer haue made Nurse once to open hir mouth in the cause. 1640 W. Prynne Lord Bishops vi. sig. Eivv No penny, no Pater noster; they looke more to their tithes, then to their taske. ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. ii. 22 Once was—No Pater Noster, No Penny; now—No Sermons, not a Penny, not a Farthing. 1845 Biblical Repertory July 376 An instance is given in which the clergy are charged in the newspapers with omitting the festival, for lack of fees: ‘no pence, no paternoster.’ 1925 J. I. C. Clarke My Life & Memories ix. 74 If, of old, the churchly motto ‘No penny, no Paternoster’ was true, how could a church be expected to stay downtown when its congregation was moving north? 2001 Spectator (Nexis) 21 Apr. 13 No penny no Pater noster. No longer pipe, no longer dance. < as lemmas |
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