英语词汇“touch and go is a good pilot”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

† Proverb. touch and go is a good pilot and variants: as long as one is ultimately successful, it does not matter how close one has come to failure or disaster. Cf. sense A. 1b. Obsolete.

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1782 J. Belknap Let. 17 Feb. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1877) 5th Ser. II. 116 I do not foresee any great difficulty that will come in my way till I arrive at the negotiation with Mason in 1747, and then, I believe, I must take for my motto, Touch and go is a good pilot.

1801 Knight & Mason III. i. 2 Touch, and go, is a good pilot, you know, Sir Kitely; the ball grazed against the bone..but has not injured it.

1842 W. H. Maxwell Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran 227 Never was a man booked safer for the gallows; you had a close escape. Well, ‘touch’ and go is good pilotage, they say.

1880 Locomotive Firemen's Monthly Mag. June 163 It was a pretty tight squeeze, and at one time I thought sure I should lose the number of my mess, but ‘touch and go’ is a good pilot you know, and here I am to-day, as good as ever.

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释义	> as lemmas touch and go is a good pilot † Proverb. touch and go is a good pilot and variants: as long as one is ultimately successful, it does not matter how close one has come to failure or disaster. Cf. sense A. 1b. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1782 J. Belknap Let. 17 Feb. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1877) 5th Ser. II. 116 I do not foresee any great difficulty that will come in my way till I arrive at the negotiation with Mason in 1747, and then, I believe, I must take for my motto, Touch and go is a good pilot. 1801 Knight & Mason III. i. 2 Touch, and go, is a good pilot, you know, Sir Kitely; the ball grazed against the bone..but has not injured it. 1842 W. H. Maxwell Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran 227 Never was a man booked safer for the gallows; you had a close escape. Well, ‘touch’ and go is good pilotage, they say. 1880 Locomotive Firemen's Monthly Mag. June 163 It was a pretty tight squeeze, and at one time I thought sure I should lose the number of my mess, but ‘touch and go’ is a good pilot you know, and here I am to-day, as good as ever. extracted from touch and gon.adj. < as lemmas
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