单词 | familiarity breeds contempt |
释义 | familiarity breeds contemptphrase See full dictionary entry for familiarityFamiliarity is used especially in the expression familiarity breeds contempt to say that if you know a person or situation very well, you can easily lose respect for that person or become careless in that situation. Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. familiarity breeds contemptsaid to mean that if you know someone or something very well, you can easily become bored with them and stop treating them with respect or stop paying attention to them Of course, it's often true that familiarity breeds contempt, that we're attractedto those who seem so different from those we know at home. |
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