| 单词 | feast won, fast lost |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfeast won, fast lost ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > in other specific manner feast won, fast losta1616 forageda1848 a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 168 Feast won, fast lost . View more context for this quotation 1866 ‘Ouida’ Chandos I. ii. viii. 305 Timon! You make me an omnous parallel. Would you all be ‘feast-won, fast lost’? 1884 C. R. Williams Selections from Lucian (ed. 2) 199 Lucian makes this the result of his discovery that the friends upon whom he had lavished his substance were mere ‘trencher-friends’, ‘feast-won, fast-lost’, and that as soon as his riches had taken flight, their friendship and devotion likewise took wing. < as lemmas |
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