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单词 one hand washeth another
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one hand washeth another
d. Proverbs. †one hand washeth another (see quots. 1581, 1593). to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white); to wash an ass's head (or ears): to labour in vain (cf. 1b).
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort in vain
to lose or spill one's whilec1175
to speak to the windc1330
tinec1330
to beat the windc1375
lose?a1513
to boil, roast, or wash a stonea1529
to lose (one's) oil1548
to plough the sand (also sands)a1565
to wash an ass's head (or ears)1581
to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white)1581
to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tilea1600
to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616
to bark against (or at) the moona1641
dead horse1640
to cast stones against the wind1657
dry-ditcha1670
baffle1860
to go, run or rush (a)round in circles1933
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 165 As one hand washeth another, and both of them the face, so one brother ought to support another.
1592 T. Lodge Euphues Shadow (1882) 53 Who washeth the Asses eares, looseth both his Sope and his labour.
1593 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 269 One hand washeth an other: and it apperteineth vnto him, that taketh something, to giue some~thing.
1604 J. Marston Malcontent iv. iii. sig. F3 I washt an Ethiop, who for recompence Sullyde my name.
a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 375 We mein nocht to tyne tyme in wassing of sic Moores.
1635 L. Foxe North-west Fox sig. Ii4v I have now washt the Black-moore these five yeares, having yet received neither Sallery, wages or reward. marg. Laboured in vaine.
1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 155 He that washeth an asses head loseth both his lye and his labour.
a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) ii. ii. 70 For, beinge censurd, Or to extenuate or excuse my guilt Weare but to wash an Ethiop.
a1791 J. Wesley Serm. (1825) II. lxviii. 158 In the most elegant language, she labours to wash the Æthiop white.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 65 It is loss of time and soap to wash an ass's head.
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