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单词 there is a difference between staring and stark mad
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there is a difference between staring and stark mad (also stark blind)
Proverb. there is a difference between staring and stark mad (also stark blind) and variants. Obsolete.Sometimes apparently quoted as a general comment on the existence of fine distinctions.
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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Iiiiv The difference betweene staryng, and starke blynde, The wyse man at all tymes to folowe can fynde.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 64 Descende into your owne conscyences, consider with your selues the greate difference betweene staringe and starke blynde, witte and wisedome, loue and lust.
1592 T. Lodge Euphues Shadow sig. L4 There is a meane in all things Maister, a difference betwixt staring and starke mad.
1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy ii. 32 Mel. Am I starke mad? Troll. No, no, you are but a little staring—there's difference betweene staring and starke mad.
1692 J. Hawkins Eng. School-master Compleated xxii. 79 There is difference between staring and stark mad.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 200 There's Difference betwixt staring and stark mad.
1787 J. Wolcot Ode upon Ode in Wks. (1812) I. 440 There's odds 'twixt staring and stark mad.
1884 Christian Advocate 12 June 6/4 There's a difference between staring and stark blind.
1896 Western Times (Exeter) 6 May 2/2 The devolution of centralised powers is undoubtedly one of the methods of progress. But there is a difference between staring and stark mad.
extracted from staringadj.adv.
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