| 单词 | sweet meat will have sour sauce |
| 释义 | > as lemmassweet meat will have sour sauce P5. sweet meat will have sour sauce and variants: a pleasurable experience (esp. a sinful or illicit one) is likely to be followed by unpleasant consequences. Now rare. ΚΠ a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. B.iv Swete meate hath soure sauce. 1607 S. Hieron Christians Iournall in Wks. (1620) I. 20 The sweet meats of wickednes will haue the sowre sauce of wretchednes and misery. 1703 M. Pix Different Widows v. ii. 48 We shall have the Sweet Meat without the Sour Sauce; for every Wedding begins pleasantly, and ours will end before we have time to change. 1869 Worcs. Chron. 13 Oct. 2/5 The article proved..‘Cathartical’..to such a degree that Mr. Knapp was debarred from returning to his duties..for some days. The old and very true saying that ‘sweet meat will have sour sauce’ is exemplified in this instance. 1961 I. Stone Agony & Ecstasy vi. 363 Now after sweet meat, comes sour sauce. The Piccolomini heirs insist that you carve the balance of their statues. < as lemmas |
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