英语词汇“the fewer the better cheer”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P6. Proverb. the fewer the better cheer and variants: the fewer people there are, the more there will be for each to eat or (more generally) the better the occasion or situation will be. Frequently contrasted with the more the merrier at merry adj. Phrases 2b. Now rare.

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1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. viii. v. §11 443 Those that were authors of this, had learned to well our olde prouerb, the fewer the better cheare, but the more Byshops, the merier it had bin with Gods people.

c1650 H. Norwood Voy. Virginia in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) (modernized text) VI. 154/2 We..fell on without using the ceremony of calling the rest of our company..the proverb telling us, The fewer the better chear.

1686 J. Warr tr. Quintilian Declamations xii. 294 Our Vessels are full fraught and to inhance our joy for so great a Blessing the fewer Guests, the better Chear.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 125 Lady Smart..Come, the more the merrier. Sir John. Ay, but the fewer the better Cheer.

1798 J. Ring Refl. on Surgeons Bill 121 In respect to the paucity which he recommends, perhaps he thinks the fewer hands in a purse the better; at any rate, the fewer the better cheer.

1887 H. C. Adams Perils in Transvaal ii. 24 You know the old proverb..the fewer the better cheer. We must try to make that good.

1969 Speculum 44 516 Some delegates felt ‘the more the merrier,’ and others, though not expressing the sentiment directly, ‘the fewer the better cheer.’

单词	the fewer the better cheer
释义	> as lemmas the fewer the better cheer P6. Proverb. the fewer the better cheer and variants: the fewer people there are, the more there will be for each to eat or (more generally) the better the occasion or situation will be. Frequently contrasted with the more the merrier at merry adj. Phrases 2b. Now rare. ΚΠ 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. viii. v. §11 443 Those that were authors of this, had learned to well our olde prouerb, the fewer the better cheare, but the more Byshops, the merier it had bin with Gods people. c1650 H. Norwood Voy. Virginia in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) (modernized text) VI. 154/2 We..fell on without using the ceremony of calling the rest of our company..the proverb telling us, The fewer the better chear. 1686 J. Warr tr. Quintilian Declamations xii. 294 Our Vessels are full fraught and to inhance our joy for so great a Blessing the fewer Guests, the better Chear. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 125 Lady Smart..Come, the more the merrier. Sir John. Ay, but the fewer the better Cheer. 1798 J. Ring Refl. on Surgeons Bill 121 In respect to the paucity which he recommends, perhaps he thinks the fewer hands in a purse the better; at any rate, the fewer the better cheer. 1887 H. C. Adams Perils in Transvaal ii. 24 You know the old proverb..the fewer the better cheer. We must try to make that good. 1969 Speculum 44 516 Some delegates felt ‘the more the merrier,’ and others, though not expressing the sentiment directly, ‘the fewer the better cheer.’ extracted from cheern.¹ < as lemmas
随便看	to tell his own to tell howdy to tell it like it is to tell little price of to tell little price upon to tell noses to tell off to tell on to tell one's conscience to tell one's mind to tell one's tale to tell or count one's beads to tell out to tell out of to tell over to tell price of to tell price upon to tell say the truth and shame the devil to tell scorn to tell short of to tell someone where he or she gets off to tell someone where to get off to tell speak the truth and shame the devil to tell steps with to tell t'other from which

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