单词 | to cry stinking fish |
释义 | > as lemmasto cry stinking fish (b) Proverb. to cry stinking fish. ΚΠ 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iv. i. 510 Does ever any man cry stinking fish to be sold? 1825 L. L. Cameron Crooked Paths in Houlston Tracts I. xxv. 5 ‘Sir,’ answered the woman, looking wise, ‘nobody cries stinking fish.’ 1844 W. M. Thackeray Barry Lyndon i. iv, in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 197/1 This was not true; but what is the use of crying bad fish? < as lemmas |
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