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单词 do as i say, not as i do
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do as I say, not as I do
P3. Proverb. do as I say, not as I do and variants. [Partly in allusion to Matthew 23:3 (R.V.) ‘but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not’ (post-classical Latin secundum opera vero eorum nolite facere dicunt enim et non faciunt (Vulgate), Hellenistic Greek κατὰ δὲ τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν μὴ ποιεῖτε· λέγουσιν γὰρ καὶ οὐ ποιοῦσιν); compare also ancient Greek ἄλλα μὲν λέγουσιν, ἄλλα δὲ πράττουσιν ‘they say one thing, but do another’ (Aesop Fables 163).]
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OE Priest's Advice in Lent (Tiber. C.i.) in P. Clemoes Anglo-Saxons (1959) 277 Ac þeah ic wyrs do þonne ic þe lære ne do þu na swa swa ic do, ac do swa ic þe lære gyf ic þe wel lære.]
c1450 MS Douce 52 in Festschrift zum XII. Neuphilologentage (1906) 53 (MED) Thow shall do as þe preste says but not as þe preste doos.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hivv Ye could tell a nother herein, the best way. But it is as folke dooe, and not as folke say.
a1591 H. Smith Lawiers Question (1595) sig. H3v If you seeme to mislike their dooings, then..they aunswere for themselues; Doo as we say, and not as wee doo.
1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 45 Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.
1783 London Med. Jrnl. 3 76 Even the spiritual and medical advisers of temperance and regularity, are themselves infected with the love of this kind of..good living; and the old phrase,—Do as I say, but don't do as I do, is no where more necessary.
1811 E. Parker Elfrida II. vii. 109 Mind how you proceed, lest we liken you to the drunken Parson, who preached in favor of sobriety, crying out—‘Do as I say, not as I do!’
1889 Med. Current Dec. 549 In life, do not most teachers impress us with this fact, ‘Do as we say, not as we do’.
1916 H. E. Luccock Five-minute Shop-talks xix. 108 Many a man will say, ‘Don't do as I do; do as I say’.
1951 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 29 Sept. 12/1 The rulers of the Soviet Union..expect others to do as they say, not as they do.
1989 J. Epstein Iron Pen ii. iii. 104 He tells his ward to do as he says rather than as he does.
2011 Sunday Times (Nexis) 13 Nov. 25 Do as I say, not as I do is the first law of politics.
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