| 单词 | three removes are as bad as a fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthree removes are as bad as a fire Proverb. three removes are as bad as a fire and variants. Now rare. ΚΠ 1758 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 14 Three Removes is as bad as a Fire. 1839 C. Dickens Let. 14 Nov. (1965) I. 602 Did you ever ‘move’?.. There is an old proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire. 1896 Cosmopolitan Oct. 677 Three removes may be as good as a fire in just the same sense that three vaccinations may be as good as a case of smallpox. 1903 Punch 18 Nov. 360/2 If to the householder three removes are equal to a fire, this particular meal should have the effect of a volcanic eruption on a modern sybarite. 1923 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 10 Apr. 16/3 (advt.) An old saying has it that ‘three removes are as bad as a fire’—meaning that one's household goods in three moves get about as badly racked and scratched as they would in being salvaged from a fire. < as lemmas |
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