英语词汇“to thresh straw”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. to thresh (over) straw and variants: to work at something that is unproductive or unprofitable; to revisit or spend more time on something that has already been resolved or completed. Now rare.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > be unproductive [verb (intransitive)]

to lie at a stand1622

to thresh (over) straw1844

1844 R. Whately Elements Logic (ed. 8) Pref. p. xi Our ancestors..contented themselves with vainly threshing over and over the same straw.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. iv. 88 Why plague thyself with threshing straw for ever?

1890 Congregationalist (Boston, Mass.) 1 May 9/2 He did not waste his genius in threshing over old straw, but grappled energetically with the urgent problems of his own day.

1891 Proc. 5th Ann. Convent. Western Assoc. Writers 1890 16 At the risk of seeming to thresh straw, I am constrained—following the example of my predecessors—to speak.

1916 H. B. Rankin Personal Recoll. A. Lincoln 144 It irritated him, he said, to thresh over straw a second time.

1946 Times 7 Jan. 9/3 It [sc. the President's address] did little more, as the public saw it, than thresh over old straw.

单词	to thresh straw
释义	> as lemmas to thresh (over) straw P2. to thresh (over) straw and variants: to work at something that is unproductive or unprofitable; to revisit or spend more time on something that has already been resolved or completed. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > be unproductive [verb (intransitive)] to lie at a stand1622 to thresh (over) straw1844 1844 R. Whately Elements Logic (ed. 8) Pref. p. xi Our ancestors..contented themselves with vainly threshing over and over the same straw. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. iv. 88 Why plague thyself with threshing straw for ever? 1890 Congregationalist (Boston, Mass.) 1 May 9/2 He did not waste his genius in threshing over old straw, but grappled energetically with the urgent problems of his own day. 1891 Proc. 5th Ann. Convent. Western Assoc. Writers 1890 16 At the risk of seeming to thresh straw, I am constrained—following the example of my predecessors—to speak. 1916 H. B. Rankin Personal Recoll. A. Lincoln 144 It irritated him, he said, to thresh over straw a second time. 1946 Times 7 Jan. 9/3 It [sc. the President's address] did little more, as the public saw it, than thresh over old straw. extracted from threshv. < as lemmas
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