| 单词 | a wolf in a lamb's skin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa wolf (or fox) in a lamb's skin a. The skin or hide of a lamb with the wool on. Proverbial phr. a wolf (or fox) in a lamb's skin. Π c1480 (a1400) St. Julian 506 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 472 For he resemblyt fore to be worthy and gud; bot ȝet he wykyt wolfe wes withine, & heylyt in a lame-skine. c1480 (a1400) St. Eugenia 378 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 135 He is wolf in lamskine hyd, & ful verray ypocrite. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 40 Sum in ane lamb skyn is a tod. 1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 22 §1 Yt shall not bee lawful..to pull, sheare, clippe, or take away the wool of anie sheepe skinne or lambe skinne. 1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxix. 45 Schawing quhow, wolfis in lam skynis! þe puire scheip ȝe misgyde. < as lemmas |
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