| 单词 | open and shet, sign o' wet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasopen and shet, sign o' wet Proverb. open and shet, sign o' wet and variants: alternately sunny and cloudy conditions usually indicate rain. ΚΠ 1878 J. Fiske Let. 13 June (1940) 372 Sunday ‘open and shet, sign 'o more wet’. 1890 Dial. Notes 1 i. 19 The common New England maxim is ‘Open and shet's a sign of wet.’ 1929 Amer. Speech 5 123 The weather was much spoken of. A fine day was a ‘weather breeder’, ‘Open and shet’ is a sign of wet. 1975 J. Gould Maine Lingo 196 Open and shut, threatening weather with quick changes from sunshine to clouds. The adage runs: ‘Open and shet; sign o'wet.’ 1995 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 29 Dec. 17 The old-time goose-bone prophets of the bygone who could stick a wet finger in the air and say with confidence, ‘Open and shet, sign o' wet.’ < as lemmas |
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