单词 | two wrongs do not make a right |
释义 | two wrongs do not make a rightA second misdeed or mistake does not cancel the first, as in Don't take his ball just because he took yours—two wrongs do not make a right. This proverbial adage sounds ancient but was first recorded in 1783, as Three wrongs will not make one right. Words nearby two wrongs do not make a righttwo-way mirror, two ways about it, two-way street, two-wheeler, two-word verb, two wrongs do not make a right, Two wrongs don't make a right, twp., TWU, TWX, twyer The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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