| 单词 | the silent sow eats up all the draff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe silent sow eats up all the draff ΚΠ 1640 H. Mill Nights Search viii. 44 The sow that's silent, eates up all the draffe. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xxiv. 238 The silent sow sups all the broth. 1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. vii. 201 The silent pig is the best feeder. 1922 L. Crowninsheild Bacon Reminisc. ii. 27 He once described Uncle Charles as ‘this doctor fellow, he sits still and does not speak like the “silent sow he sucks all the swill”’, not a very refined description, but an apt one. < as lemmas |
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