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单词 to boil, roast, or wash a stone
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to boil, roast, or wash a stone
a. to boil, roast, or wash a stone: to labour in vain, expend effort with no result. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort in vain
to lose or spill one's whilec1175
to speak to the windc1330
tinec1330
to beat the windc1375
lose?a1513
to boil, roast, or wash a stonea1529
to lose (one's) oil1548
to plough the sand (also sands)a1565
to wash an ass's head (or ears)1581
to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white)1581
to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tilea1600
to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616
to bark against (or at) the moona1641
dead horse1640
to cast stones against the wind1657
dry-ditcha1670
baffle1860
to go, run or rush (a)round in circles1933
a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 109 They may..elles go rost a stone.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ii. sig. G I do but rost a stone. In warmyng hir.
c1548 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1822) II. ii. 316 Or els he washeth a stone, that is to say, he laboureth in vayne.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 22 May 6/1 Like the old saying:—‘Boil stones in butter and you shall sup the broth.’
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