| 单词 | fair-weather friend |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfair-weather friend fair-weather friend n. a friend during pleasant or prosperous times; esp. one who is friendly or dependable only when it is easy or convenient to be so; an unreliable friend; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [noun] > of persons > unreliable person flippera1400 fair-weather friend1685 waffler1805 foul-weather friend1845 1685 W. Clark Grand Tryal ii. vi. 42 When the troubled Skye, Portends a Storm, and Clouds begin to reel, Then those Fair-weather-friends bid us farewel. 1730 A. Pope Let. 1 Oct. (1735) II. 236 My Fair-Weather-Friends of the Summer are going away for London. 1787 Familiar Ess. Interesting Subj. 79 Ethelinda still lives admired..though neglected and forgotten by the fair-weather friends who once flattered her in her life of grandeur. 1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 18 Feb. 18/1 Rats are a sort of fair-weather friend in their way, always departing from a house when misfortune is about to befall it. 1896 Spectator 15 Aug. 217/2 She belongs to the sad company of ‘reduced gentlefolk,’ and finds how short are the memories of fair weather friends. 1922 C. J. Melrose Money & Credit ix. 187 A mixed currency..never was—it never could be—anything but a mere palliative—a ‘fair weather friend’. 1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 26 Apr. 27/3 Nick..takes revenge on fair-weather friends and becomes a genuine nice guy. < as lemmas |
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