| 单词 | you can take out of ——, but you can't take —— out of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyou can take (a person) out of ——, but you can't take —— out of (a person) l. you can take (a person) out of ——, but you can't take —— out of (a person) and variants: the influence of a particular place or situation on the character of a person or thing cannot be eradicated by removing the person or thing from the place or situation in question. ΚΠ 1915 Washington Post 21 Mar. 3/2 Williams says you can take the man out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the man. 1921 Chicago Defender 30 Apr. 16/3 You can take the man out of the South, but you cannot take the South out of the man. 1942 Amer. Weekly 4 Jan. 5/4 You can take the girl out of the chorus but you can't take the chorus out of the girl, because..nothing ever really satisfied her but the Broadway circuit. 1964 J. O'Hara Hat on Bed 98 ‘I think we stay the same.’.. ‘Of course we do... You know the old saying, you can take the boy out of Ohio but you can't take Ohio out of the boy.’ 1997 Times 19 Sept. 33/1 While you can take Björk out of Iceland, it seems you cannot take Iceland out of Björk's music. 2013 A. S. Nathan Glass Wives xxiii. 249 People don't change. She's proof of that... You can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the girl. < as lemmas |
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