单词 | to run with hare and hounds |
释义 | > as lemmasto run with hare and hounds c. to run with the hare and hunt (or hold) with the hounds (or hound): to (try to) remain on good terms with both sides in a conflict or dispute; to play a double part. Also to run with hare and hounds. Cf. to hold with the hare and run with the hounds at hare n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > act evasively [verb (intransitive)] > practise double-dealing double1530 to play on (also with) both hands1530 to run with hare and hounds1573 to have (also wear) two faces1889 1573 R. Curteys Serm. preached at Grenewiche sig. C.vijv They will say that white is blacke, and blacke white: they will runne with the hare, and holde with the hounde. a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) iv. sig. H2v In such a world where men are so misled, What should i do? but as the Prouerbe saith, Runne with the Hare, and hunt with the Hound. a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. D He runs with the hound and holds with the hair. 1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Mascár a dos carríllos,..to play Jack on both sides; to run with the Hare and hold with the Hound. 1807 Universal Mag. Jan. 12/1 This cannot but remind a reflecting reader of the familiar phrase, to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. 1830 Liverpool Mercury 20 Aug. 267/3 Whether their present line of policy is to ‘run with the hare and hold with the hounds’, or is frank and sincere, time will discover. 1896 M. A. S. Hume Courtships Q. Eliz. xii. 261 Leicester..tried to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, to retain French bribes and yet to stand in the way of French objects. 1901 K. P. Wormeley tr. Marquis d'Argenson Jrnl. & Mem. 2 iii. 91 Sly and double-faced persons, who know well how to run with the hare and hold with the hounds. 1920 Encycl. Americana XXVII. 192/2 His son Tewfik was running with hare and hounds, being also in partial sympathy at first with Arabi and his army. 2001 T. Saunders Baiting Trap (2002) vii. 116 One of the problems with the Darrens of this world..is that they run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. < as lemmas |
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