| 单词 | willing horse |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswilling horse willing horse n. (in proverbial phrases) applied to a person who is willing to work or to take trouble. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > trouble taken to accomplish anything > one who > willing to willing horsea1605 a1605 J. Cooke For Francis Drake (Harl. 540) in W. S. W. Vaux World Encompassed (1854) App. iv. 207 There nedyd no spure to a willing horsse. 1616 T. Draxe Bibliotheca Scholastica 93 All lay load on a willing horse. 1881 Daily News 29 Dec. 5/2 It was probably on the well-known principle of working a willing horse that he was left to labour as an ordinary Judge for fifteen years. 2018 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 14 Oct. 23 The work always comes back to the willing horses and we are thankful that we have those willing horses in rural communities. < as lemmas |
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