| 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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