单词 | to make two bites of a cherry |
释义 | > as lemmasto make two bites of a cherry Frequent in proverbial expressions, as to make two bites of a cherry (bite n. 7, cherry n. 1b); to have two strings to one's bow (bow n.1 4c); of two evils (or ills) choose the less (evil n.1 4, ill n. 5b); between two fires (fire n. 10); two heads are better than one (head n.1 Phrases 5c); as like as two peas (pea n.2 1b); two cents' worth (U.S.): = two pennyworth n. (fig.); cf. two-cent adj. at Compounds 2 below; no two ways about it: see way n.1 and int.1 Phrases 5d etc.extracted from twoadj.n.adv.< as lemmas |
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