| 单词 | bought wit is best |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbought wit is best (but may cost too much) Proverb. bought wit is best (but may cost too much) and variants: knowledge gained by experience is the most valuable. Π 1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 51 Fooles are they which say: bought wit is best, espetially, if it be rated at my prise. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. I3v Tis an olde Prouerbe,..Bought wit is the best. 1660 T. Forde Love's Labyrinth v. vi. 68 in Virtus Rediviva (1661) I like your love much better than your Hackney lines: but bought wit's best. ?1785 Wisdom in Miniature 193 Bought wit is best, but may cost too much. 1844 World of Fashion 1 Mar. 62/1 ‘Bought wit is best.’ No experience like a man's own! 1992 G. Lerner Black Women in White Amer. 84 Bought wit is the dearest wit. I have never been very shrewd in money matters; and being classed as a lady..and never exposed to any hardship, I did not know how to manage. 2020 @onehumanfamily2 16 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 14 June 2022) He's been saying it's [i.e. covid] a hoax…now he's getting a 1st hand acct of the lies he has been fed. Go figure. Bought wit is better than told, unfortunately. < as lemmas |
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