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单词 toujours perdrix
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toujours perdrix
2. toujours perdrix /pɛrdri/, lit. ‘always partridge’, an allusive phrase used to imply that one can have too much of a good thing. [For an explanation see A. M. Hyamson Dict. Eng. Phrases (1922) 346/1.]
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > feeling wearied or bored [phrase] > too much of something
toujours perdrix1818
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 569/2 A partridge is a good thing; and yet even ‘Toujours Perdrix’ is not to be borne.
1877 L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine (1879) xvii. 163 He wanted a rest, a change from this toujours perdrix of ladies' society, polite small-talk, boredom.
1927 D. H. Lawrence Let. 12 Dec. (1962) II. 1026 I'm sick of Jesus... We might have somebody else born for a change. Toujours perdrix!
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