| 单词 | to reckon without one's host |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto reckon (†count) without (†before) one's host b. Prov. to reckon (†count) without (†before) one's host: to calculate one's bill or score without consulting one's host or landlord; to come to conclusions without taking into consideration some important circumstance of the case. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > conclude falsely [verb (intransitive)] to reckon (count) without (before) one's host1490 misconclude1636 overgeneralize1851 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > judge wrongly [verb (intransitive)] > judge prematurely to reckon (count) without (before) one's host1490 to run before one's horse to market1597 jumpa1704 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) lii. 202 It ys sayd in comyn that ‘who soeuer rekeneth wythoute his hoste, he rekeneth twys for ones’. 1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xv. f. lxiiii He fareth lo lyke a geste, that maketh hys rekenynge hym self without his hoste. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxxj Thei reckened before their host, and so paied more then their shotte came to. 1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 635 He that comptis without his oist, oft tymes he comptis twise. 1698 J. Vanbrugh 2nd Pt. Æsop iii But here, alas! he found to's cost, He had reckon'd long without his host. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. ii. 48 But hostess as she was herself,..she reckoned without her host in the present instance. 1877 S. J. Owen in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches Introd. p. xv He counted without his host. 1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy ii. 174 He [Bruno] reckoned strangely in this matter, without the murderous host into whose clutches he had fallen. < as lemmas |
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