| 单词 | opportunity knocks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasopportunity knocks P2. opportunity knocks and variants: an opportunity presents itself; a chance of success occurs; also in proverb. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [phrase] > opportunity presents itself (only once) opportunity knocks1926 1809 Port Folio Nov. 431 Fortune knocks once, at least, at every man's door. ?1844 J. R. Lowell Hakon's Lay in Early Poems (1898) 71 Through the broad Earth roams Opportunity And knocks at every door of hut and hall Until she finds the brave soul she wants.] 1926 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 13 175 A golden opportunity knocked at their door, when the Indians besought the commissioners to send Robert Livingston to Westminster. 1942 P. G. Wodehouse Money in Bank xv. 157 Opportunity knocks but once, and he had allowed it to knock in vain. 1970 Computers & Humanities 5 16 From the earliest English settlements to the closing of the frontier and the advent of industrialism, opportunity knocked for young men of high and low social status at fairly regular alternate intervals. 1994 National Canad. Bar Assoc. May 48/1 If you don't go global when opportunity knocks you risk a lot of business. < as lemmas |
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