英语词汇“the grey mare is the better horse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. the grey mare is the better horse and variants: used to indicate that a wife dominates, or is more competent than, her husband. Cf. grey mare n. at Compounds 1c(a). Now archaic and rare.The meaning in quot. 1529 is unclear.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [phrase] > the wife rules the husband

the grey mare is the better horse1546

1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. v. f. lxxvi^v/1 Here were we fallen in a grete questyon of the law, whyther y^e gray mare maye be y^e better horse or not, or whither he haue a wyse face or not that loketh as lyke a foole as an ewe loketh lyke a shepe.]

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iv. sig. Giv The grey mare is the better hors.

1570 Mariage Witte & Sci. ii. ii. sig. Bii^v Breake her betymes and bring her vnder by force Or elles the graye Mare, wil be the better horse.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. ix. 11 To suffer the Gray-Mare sometimes to be the better Horse.

1697 E. Ravenscroft Anatomist i. ii. 3 Sir, you know the Wife there wears the Breeches; and if the grey Mare be the better Horse, you'll find it difficult to bestride the Filly.

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 2 She began to tyrannize over my Master,..and soon prov'd, as the Saying is, The grey Mare to be the better Horse.

1798 G. Colman Heir at Law iii. ii. 40 You'll find the gray mare the better horse, in this house, I promise you.

1844 Ainsworth's Mag. 6 17 ‘Ah, ah! mon brave, you are prettily hen-peck—ha! ha!’ ‘Oui, oui, de gray mare is clearly de better horse,’ cried Sauvageon.

1920 Herald & Presbyter 14 Jan. 14/1 ‘Could you tell us, Mr. Thomas,’ asked Mr. Simmons..with a timid glance at his wife, ‘what was in the will you made for Mr. Lowell?’ ‘Evidently the gray mare is the better horse, in this case,’ whispered Kenyon to Sara.

1950 S. P. Best in E. Metaxas Bonhoeffer (2010) xxx Of the Heberleins, the grey mare was undoubtedly the better horse.

单词	the grey mare is the better horse
释义	> as lemmas the grey mare is the better horse a. the grey mare is the better horse and variants: used to indicate that a wife dominates, or is more competent than, her husband. Cf. grey mare n. at Compounds 1c(a). Now archaic and rare.The meaning in quot. 1529 is unclear. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [phrase] > the wife rules the husband the grey mare is the better horse1546 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. v. f. lxxvi^v/1 Here were we fallen in a grete questyon of the law, whyther y^e gray mare maye be y^e better horse or not, or whither he haue a wyse face or not that loketh as lyke a foole as an ewe loketh lyke a shepe.] 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iv. sig. Giv The grey mare is the better hors. 1570 Mariage Witte & Sci. ii. ii. sig. Bii^v Breake her betymes and bring her vnder by force Or elles the graye Mare, wil be the better horse. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. ix. 11 To suffer the Gray-Mare sometimes to be the better Horse. 1697 E. Ravenscroft Anatomist i. ii. 3 Sir, you know the Wife there wears the Breeches; and if the grey Mare be the better Horse, you'll find it difficult to bestride the Filly. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 2 She began to tyrannize over my Master,..and soon prov'd, as the Saying is, The grey Mare to be the better Horse. 1798 G. Colman Heir at Law iii. ii. 40 You'll find the gray mare the better horse, in this house, I promise you. 1844 Ainsworth's Mag. 6 17 ‘Ah, ah! mon brave, you are prettily hen-peck—ha! ha!’ ‘Oui, oui, de gray mare is clearly de better horse,’ cried Sauvageon. 1920 Herald & Presbyter 14 Jan. 14/1 ‘Could you tell us, Mr. Thomas,’ asked Mr. Simmons..with a timid glance at his wife, ‘what was in the will you made for Mr. Lowell?’ ‘Evidently the gray mare is the better horse, in this case,’ whispered Kenyon to Sara. 1950 S. P. Best in E. Metaxas Bonhoeffer (2010) xxx Of the Heberleins, the grey mare was undoubtedly the better horse. extracted from greygrayadj.n. < as lemmas
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