| 单词 | a tinker mends one hole and makes two |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa tinker mends one hole and makes two ΚΠ 1564 T. Dorman Proufe Certeyne Articles in Relig. f. 73v The false tincker that mendeth one hole and maketh two newe. 1690 T. Long Vox Cleri 45 That reproach, which is endeavoured to be fixed on some of us, of being Ecclesiastical Tinkers, who undertaking to mend one hole, do usually make two or three. a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Poverty (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1730) I. 89 To cure one hole, like a true tinker, he here makes two. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 89 You have mended it, as a Tinker mends a Kettle; stop one Hole, and make two. < as lemmas |
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