| 单词 | familiarity breeds contempt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfamiliarity breeds (also brings, creates) contempt familiarity breeds (also brings, creates) contempt and variants : (originally) excessive intimacy or informality leads to disrespect; (now chiefly) habituation to a thing or person leads to disdain. Cf. quot. c1405 at homeliness n. 1. [after post-classical Latin familiaritas contemptum pariat (1523 in Erasmus; compare quot. 1548).; compare also Middle French trop grant familiarité fait despit (1st half of the 14th cent.), trop grande familiarité engendre mesprisement (c1340 or earlier), trop grande familiarité engendre haine (2nd half of the 14th cent.).] ΚΠ 1539 R. Taverner Second Bk. Garden of Wysdome sig. Aivv His speciall frendes counsailled him to beware, least his ouermuche familiaritie might breade him contempte. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John iv. f. xxxiiii Such are the affeccions of men, that familiaritie bringeth contempt [L. familiaritas contemptum pariat]. 1656 F. Osborne Polit. Reflect. Govt. Turks 31 A too prostituted Familiarity breeds contempt. 1667 J. Evelyn Publick Employm. sig. Fiv Familiarity creates contempt. 1700 J. Jones Myst. Opium Reveal'd xxv. 281 Passing over Water as despicable, because common, (for Familiarity breeds Contempt). 1760 C. Allen Polite Lady xxxvii. 244 The common saying will generally hold true, to wit, that too great familiarity breeds contempt. 1849 H. Melville Mardi I. ix. 45 Met over often and sociably, the old adage holds true, about familiarity breeding contempt. 1853 E. Leslie Behaviour Bk. iv. 47 The visiter finds that seeing a friend under all circumstances somewhat diminishes respect, and that ‘familiarity brings contempt’. 1862 ‘Scrutator’ Country Gentleman II. xiv. 233 You have heard the old saying, ‘too much familiarity creates contempt’; and if Dunkerton invites such fellows as these to his house, he must expect to have some of their sauce. 1931 E. Sackville-West Simpson i. 75 Familiarity did not breed contempt. Camberly settled deeper and deeper down into her heart. 1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 Nov. 8/6 You know what they say about familiarity breeding contempt. Mr. Bourassa was not exempt... They laughed and turned him into a caricature. 1993 A. Goodwin Dancing in Distraction Factory 80 Any current song can be heard on the radio, on our stereos, on television, and at the cinema—until familiarity breeds either sales or contempt. < as lemmas |
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