英语词汇“hard words break no bones”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) hard words break no bones and variants: used to express or encourage an attitude of indifference to taunts, insults, or other verbal abuse. Cf. sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me at stick n.¹ Phrases 15.See also fair words break no bones at fair adj. and n.¹ Phrases 4.

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1584 R. Greene Arbasto 38 As words breake no bones, so we cared the lesse for hir scolding.

a1623 W. Pemble Fiue Godly & Profitable Serm. (1628) 34 Let God and his Ministers threaten never so much, we then thinke within our selues that threatned men liue longest, & such angrie words breake no bones.

1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. ii. vi. 31 High words break no Bones.

1799 Virtue made Easy 49 Though ill words break no bones, they raise the cudgel.

1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xlii. 363 I often tell 'em how wrong folks are to say that soft words butter no parsnips, and hard words break no bones.

1920 J. Galsworthy Skin Game i. 19 Well, bad words break no bones, an' they're wonderful for hardenin' the heart.

1992 Sunday Times (Bombay) 22 Mar. (Review section) 5/4 The speeches are full of invectives. But hard words break no bones.

单词	hard words break no bones
释义	> as lemmas hard words break no bones (b) hard words break no bones and variants: used to express or encourage an attitude of indifference to taunts, insults, or other verbal abuse. Cf. sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me at stick n.¹ Phrases 15.See also fair words break no bones at fair adj. and n.¹ Phrases 4. ΚΠ 1584 R. Greene Arbasto 38 As words breake no bones, so we cared the lesse for hir scolding. a1623 W. Pemble Fiue Godly & Profitable Serm. (1628) 34 Let God and his Ministers threaten never so much, we then thinke within our selues that threatned men liue longest, & such angrie words breake no bones. 1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. ii. vi. 31 High words break no Bones. 1799 Virtue made Easy 49 Though ill words break no bones, they raise the cudgel. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xlii. 363 I often tell 'em how wrong folks are to say that soft words butter no parsnips, and hard words break no bones. 1920 J. Galsworthy Skin Game i. 19 Well, bad words break no bones, an' they're wonderful for hardenin' the heart. 1992 Sunday Times (Bombay) 22 Mar. (Review section) 5/4 The speeches are full of invectives. But hard words break no bones. extracted from bonen.¹ < as lemmas
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