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单词 no such animal
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(there is) no such animal
P1. (there is) no such animal: (there is) no such person or (in later use) thing.
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1766 E. Carter Let. in Memoirs (1807) 476 None are ever fools but by a voluntary act of their own choice. There is no such animal as a fool in nature.
1802 J. Skene Diary 15 Sept. in Ital. Journey (1937) 1 A melancholy Frenchman!—There is no such animal.
1809 A. Burr Let. 5 July in Private Jrnl. (1838) I. 246 No such animal, according to English ideas of a lawyer, in Sweden!
1851 Times 12 Mar. 8/4 As for a ‘friendly’ Caffre..No such animal exists, except in the minds of silly missionaries.
1922 E. F. Murphy Black Candle ii. xxii. 322 I would like to ask these same ‘old-timers’ ‘how many square shooting addicts have you found in your experience?’ I can hear them roar and say ‘There is no such animal’.
1963 Times Rev. Industry May 85/1 Computer makers would therefore have us believe that there is no such animal as a typical programmer.
2002 Backwoods Home Mag. Nov. 74/3 If by homesteading, they mean free land, there ain't no such animal and never was.
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