| 单词 | nothing is certain but death and taxes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnothing is certain but death and taxes b. Proverb. nothing is certain but death and taxes and variants. Also shortened as death and taxes. ΚΠ 1724 E. Ward Dancing Devils 43 Nothing is sure i'th' course of Fortune, But Death and Taxes, they are certain. 1789 B. Franklin Let. 13 Nov. in Private Corr. (1817) 266 In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. 1844 Amer. Turf Reg. Feb. 71 That every gamekeeper in the cover..would be roused up by it, seemed as certain as death and taxes. 1878 Sullivan County (Indiana) Union 10 July 1/2 The man who is responsible for the saying that ‘nothing is certain but death and taxes’, must surely have been a godless wordling. 1956 Life 2 Apr. 19/2 Nothing is certain but death and taxes—and if we dwelled only on these things, life would be pretty cheerless. 2002 Observer 3 Nov. (Sport Monthly Suppl.) 58/1 In recent times, Ashes defeats for England have joined death and taxes [in] terms of certainty. < as lemmas |
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