| 单词 | one hand rubs the other |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone hand rubs the other P1. Proverb. one hand rubs the other and variants: help is reciprocated. Cf. one hand washeth another at wash v. 3d. ΚΠ 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. i. sig. A8v My selfe will for you fight, As ye haue done for me: the left hand rubs the right. View more context for this quotation 1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox ix. 196 In the Country, one hand rubb's the other as in Citties. 1852 Harper's Mag. Nov. 819/1 One hand rubs the other, and one leg helps on the other, and relations get on best in the world when they pull together. 2002 J. Oppenheimer Seinfeld: Making of Amer. Icon 44 The senior Seinfeld knew how politics worked—that one hand rubs the other. < as lemmas |
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