| 单词 | the proof of the pudding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe proof of the pudding P2. In proverbial phrase the proof of the pudding is in the eating and variants: the efficacy, quality, etc., of something can only be shown by putting it to its intended use. Hence elliptically, as the proof of the pudding: that which puts something to the test or (in later use) proves a fact or statement.Originally from proof n. 7a ‘test’, but now sometimes understood as proof n. 1a ‘evidence’. ΚΠ 1605 W. Camden Remaines xvii. 319 All the proof of a pudding is in the eating. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iii. Argt. 23 The proof of th' Pudding's seen i' th' eating. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. p. xxix I leave them to my Reader, with the old Proverb to accompany them, that the Proof of the Pudding is in eating it. 1790 W. Windham Speeches Parl. 4 Mar. (1812) I. 189 Let us..apply to the British Constitution a homely adage,..—that ‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating’. 1802 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 780 I am certainly exceedingly improved in health, spirits, & activity—& as the Proof of the Pudding is in the eating, I hope, to bring some proofs of it with me. 1876 H. James Roderick Hudson xiii. 457 I see no need of expressing it. The proof of the pudding is in the eating! The case is simply this. 1945 C. E. Balleisen Princ. Firearms xi. 123 The proof of a pudding is in the eating, and likewise the proof of an automatic weapon is its ability to repeatedly perform its cycle. 1990 Parenting Feb. 33/2 (advt.) The proof of the pudding is that some of our students break into print even before they finish the course. 2004 New Yorker 16 Feb. 106/1 And the proof of the pudding is a very simple statement that the President keeps repeating: ‘It's better to kill them there than to have them kill us here.’ < as lemmas |
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