| 单词 | the pitcher goes often to the well, but is broken at last |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe pitcher goes often to the well, but is broken at last P2. the pitcher goes often to the well, but is broken at last and variants: an action or approach which is successful at first may fail if repeated too often. Cf. pot n.1 Phrases 1. ΚΠ 1584 Withals's Shorte Dict. Lat. & Eng. (rev. ed.) sig. B1 So oft goeth the pitcher to the well, that at last it commeth home broken home. 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. D Yet at last, so long the pitcher goeth to the brooke that it commeth broken home. 1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. xvi. 235 As the Pitcher goes not so often to the water, but it comes home broken at last, so in short time not onely his Guests, but he himself was caught and brought to condign punishment. 1695 E. Ravenscroft Canterbury Guests ii. v. 19 We will get but one or two [children] at most.., lest you should Die in Childbed, For the Pitcher goes not so often to the Well, but it comes home broken at last. 1739 H. Baker & J. Miller Don John v. ii. 362 Know, Sir, that the Pitcher goes so oft to the Well, that it comes home broke at last. 1776 G. Colman Spleen ii. 41 This comes of your travelling... The pitcher never goes so often to the well—I need say no more. 1816 J. Wolcot Wks. P. Pindar IV. 116 Lasses, mind the proverb well, ‘Too oft the pitcher went to well.’ 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Oct. 3/2 The pitcher, however, has gone once too often to the well, and yesterday..the panorama caught fire in earnest, and was reduced to ashes. 1936 A. Christie ABC Murders vi. 47 Ascher ought to have been locked up years ago... The pitcher would go to the well once too often. 1996 Malaysian Business (Nexis) 16 Aug. 61 We proved again the truth of the saying that the pitcher goes so often to the well that it comes home broken at last. < as lemmas |
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