| 单词 | boys will be boys |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboys will be boys P1. boys will be boys: used to express resignation regarding an (undesirable) aspect of the behaviour of a boy or young man, as being supposedly characteristic of his age or sex. Cf. girls will be girls at girl n. Phrases 1b. ΚΠ 1770 R. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (ed. 3) VI. dccxviii. 125 Heaven bless them both!—though Jack is under a Cloud with me at present—but Boys will be Boys—and I endeavour to make my philosophy like yours—severe only to itself. 1797 Two Cousins 12 I'll tell you what, Sarah, boys will be boys, do what we will, and it is not in their nature to like old people. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiii. 112 And as for the pink bonnets..why boys will be boys. 1910 Times 8 Feb. 9/6 Boys will be boys, and probably most of us when we were at school have done much the same thing many a time. 1964 P. G. Wodehouse Frozen Assets iii. 50 I tried to tell him that boys will be boys and you're only young once. 1994 I. Welsh Acid House 125 The guy who knifed the boy..well, silly bugger, but boys will be boys. < as lemmas |
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