英语词汇“one shoulder of mutton draws down another”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†(a) proverbially. as good, wholesome, etc. as a shoulder of mutton to a sick horse: no good at all. one shoulder of mutton draws down another: eating induces eating. a shoulder of mutton for a sheep's head: something of worth for a substitute of comparatively little value. Obsolete.

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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. K Thou art..As holsome a morsell for my comly cors, As a shoulder of mutton for a sycke hors.

1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Ppp/1 One Shoulder of Mutton draws down another, (Prov.) en mangeant l'Appetit vient.

1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical vii. 84 As two Shoulders of Mutton drive down one another, so two powerful Griefs destroy one another.

1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 149 Ho! I find I was out in my Notion, to leave a Shoulder of Mutton for a Sheep's Head [L. Hem! pro thesauro carbones].

单词	one shoulder of mutton draws down another
释义	> as lemmas one shoulder of mutton draws down another †(a) proverbially. as good, wholesome, etc. as a shoulder of mutton to a sick horse: no good at all. one shoulder of mutton draws down another: eating induces eating. a shoulder of mutton for a sheep's head: something of worth for a substitute of comparatively little value. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. K Thou art..As holsome a morsell for my comly cors, As a shoulder of mutton for a sycke hors. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Ppp/1 One Shoulder of Mutton draws down another, (Prov.) en mangeant l'Appetit vient. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical vii. 84 As two Shoulders of Mutton drive down one another, so two powerful Griefs destroy one another. 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 149 Ho! I find I was out in my Notion, to leave a Shoulder of Mutton for a Sheep's Head [L. Hem! pro thesauro carbones]. extracted from shouldern. < as lemmas
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