| 单词 | one must eat a peck of dirt before one dies |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone must eat a peck of dirt before one dies b. In various proverbial expressions, esp. one must eat a peck of dirt before one dies and variants: there are many hardships to be endured in one's lifetime. ΚΠ 1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. A3v I thinke I shall not eate a pecke of salt: I shall not liue long sure. a1628 J. Carmichaell Coll. Prov. in Scots (1957) No. 587 God send na war nor a peck of meale for a plak. 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. lxxix. 221 (title) Every man must eat a peck of dirt in his life! 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 23 You must eat a Peck of Dirt before you dye. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘To measure to another a peck out of one's own bushel’, to think or treat others like himself. 1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 31 Before ye choose a friend eat a peck o' saut with him. 1901 Daily Chron. 23 Aug. 5/2 ‘A dry summer never made a dear peck’, says an old weather proverb. 1957 J. Braine Room at Top (1960) 184 The sunbeams [need] a suggestion of that dust which, whether we came from it or not, we all eat a peck of before we die. 2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Nov. f2 My dad said quietly, ‘A child needs a peck of dirt a year to grow.’ < as lemmas |
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