| 单词 | where the turk's horse once treads, the grass never grows |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhere the Turk's horse once treads, the grass never grows c. where the Turk's horse once treads, the grass never grows and variants. ΚΠ 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes sig. Fffffiiv Wheresoeuer the Grand signior his horse setteth his foot, the grasse will there no more grow. 1680 E. Hickeringill Curse ye Meroz 16 Grass they say never grows where the great Turk sets his Foot. 1869 W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Prov. & Phr. 467 Where the Turk's horse once treads, the grass never grows. 1918 Asia 18 395/1 ‘Where the hoof of the Turk's horse has pressed the grass never grows’, say the Macedonians who have suffered from his exactions. 2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 12 July I think it is an Arabian proverb which says, ‘Where the Ottoman hoof has struck, the grass never grows again’. < as lemmas |
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