英语词汇“trout in the milk”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

trout in the milk n. highly convincing circumstantial evidence, esp. of a hypothesis otherwise difficult to prove.Thoreau's reference is to surreptitious dilution of milk with stream-water.

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a1862 H. D. Thoreau Excursions (1863) 31 Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

1892 A. Conan Doyle Adventures Sherlock Holmes x My whole examination served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

1949 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 36 325 Professor Anderson marshals an impressive array of circumstantial evidence. Some of this is almost as convincing as the proverbial ‘trout in the milk’.

1985 Amer. Econ. Jrnl. 75 1124/1 While undoubtedly crude, these measures have a certain trout-in-the-milk appeal to them that contrasts with the unavoidable unpersuasiveness involved in using more definitive, but actually more uncertain, specifications.

单词	trout in the milk
释义	> as lemmas trout in the milk trout in the milk n. highly convincing circumstantial evidence, esp. of a hypothesis otherwise difficult to prove.Thoreau's reference is to surreptitious dilution of milk with stream-water. ΚΠ a1862 H. D. Thoreau Excursions (1863) 31 Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. 1892 A. Conan Doyle Adventures Sherlock Holmes x My whole examination served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. 1949 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 36 325 Professor Anderson marshals an impressive array of circumstantial evidence. Some of this is almost as convincing as the proverbial ‘trout in the milk’. 1985 Amer. Econ. Jrnl. 75 1124/1 While undoubtedly crude, these measures have a certain trout-in-the-milk appeal to them that contrasts with the unavoidable unpersuasiveness involved in using more definitive, but actually more uncertain, specifications. extracted from milkn.¹adj. < as lemmas
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