| 单词 | one born to be hanged will never be drowned |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone born to be hanged will never be drowned P5. Proverb. one born to be hanged will never be drowned and variants: used to justify indifference to danger, or explain a lucky escape, on the grounds that one will survive all misfortunes other than the one which has been preordained.Cf. sense 4a. Often in contexts of surviving dangerous situations in water or at sea. Originally apparently expressing the logical proposition that if a person is so bad that he or she will inevitably die by hanging, he or she cannot suffer any other fate as a result of taking risks or behaving badly. ΚΠ ?1505 tr. P. Gringore Castell of Laboure (new ed.) sig. B.i This is a worde sayde ouer all, He that is drowned may no man hange [Fr. Celuy quon doit noyer ne peuent pendre], And therfore thought I for to do The worste..[because] I shulde dye no more but onys.] 1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica 127 He thats borne to be hangd shall neuer be drownde. 1784 S. Shaw Jrnl. 17 Mar. in J. Quincy Life & Jrnls. S. Shaw (1847) 135 He will..never go in an old ship when he can get a new one unless he knows he is born to be hanged. 1899 S. E. Moffett in McClure's Mag. Oct. 524/2 Before he was thirteen he [sc. Mark Twain] had been extracted three times from the Mississippi... But his mother..merely remarked: ‘People who are born to be hanged are safe in the water’. 1984 K. Robards Amanda Rose (2001) i. ‘Those born to be hanged will never drown’ was what they said of him when the ocean..threatened to crush the LucieBelle's hull.., only to set her down again safely in calmer waters. 2006 Moscow Times (Nexis) 19 Sept. The passengers, who were informed about the problem [sc. an engine malfunction] before takeoff, made no particular fuss either—apparently in line with the..proverb that people born to be hanged don't have to worry about drowning. < as lemmas |
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