| 单词 | they who play at bowls must look for rubbers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthey who play at bowls must look for (also must expect, will meet with) rubbers Adversity, difficulty. Only in plural in proverb they who play at bowls must look for (also must expect, will meet with) rubbers and variants. ΚΠ 1751 Mem. & Interesting Adventures Embroidered Waistcoat II. 19 Miss Lisper..had..sometimes Conversation with Men, and as they who play at Bowls must expect Rubbers, she began to feel an Increase of her Size. 1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. x. 200 (heading) Which sheweth that he who plays at bowls, will sometimes meet with rubbers. 1797 Ld. Nelson Feb. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 350 They who play at balls must expect rubbers. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. vi. 162 ‘And how if it fails?’ said Darsie. ‘Thereafter as it may be—’ said Nixon; ‘they who play at bowls must meet with rubbers.’ 1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 907/1 They who play at bowls, must look for rubbers. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms III. xi. 153 If you play at bowls, you must take rubbers. 1908 A. G. Gardiner Prophets, Priests & Kings 149 He plays at bowls, but does not look for rubbers. 1929 S. L. Gwynn Lett. & Friendships Sir C. Spring-Rice xxvii. 428 Those who play at bowls must expect rubbers: sharpness begets sharpness in reply. < as lemmas |
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