| 单词 | sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me |
| 释义 | > as lemmassticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me P15. sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me and variants: used, esp. by children, to express or encourage an attitude of indifference to taunts, insults, or other verbal abuse. In later use also shortened to sticks and stones and esp. used attributively to designate an attitude, behaviour, or action characterized by indifference to taunts, insults, or other verbal abuse. ΚΠ 1862 Christian Recorder 22 Mar. Remember the old adage, ‘Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me’. True courage consists in doing what is right, despite the jeers and sneers of our companions. 1894 G. F. Northall Folk-phrases 23 Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me! Said by one youngster to another calling names. 1946 Ladies' Home Jrnl. May 153 ‘We'll get you in the yard tomorrow and bite it out of you.’ ‘Sticks and stones,’ he said, with a yawn. 1952 Dept. State Bull. 19 May 781/1 To back out, taking the ‘sticks and stones’ attitude, would doom freedom everywhere to destruction. 1970 Globe Mag. (Toronto) 26 Sept. 2/1 A don't care sticks and stones defiance in his eyes. 1995 Harper's Mag. Apr. 49/2 Sticks and stones, my friend. That kind of confrontational attitude does nothing but make me feel a lack of respect for you. 2003 M. Haddon Curious Incident of Dog in Night-time 56 I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me. < as lemmas |
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