| 单词 | if it should rain porridge, he would want his dish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasif it should rain porridge, he would want his dish P1. if it should rain porridge, he would want his dish and variants: this person is characterized by bad luck or by an inability to be organized or prepared. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > unfortunately [phrase] > suffering misfortune > recurrent ill-fortune if it should rain porridge, he would want his dish1576 1576 U. Fulwell Ars Adulandi f. 2v It rayned pottage, but I wanted a dish. 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 191 If it should rain pottage, he would want his dish. 1732 T. Fuller Gnomologia 112 If it should rain Porridge, he'd want a Dish. 1889 C. H. Spurgeon Salt-cellars 257 If it rained porridge, the lazy man would have no basin. 1923 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 54 136 If it should be rainin' porridge, my dish'd sure to be upside down. 1950 K. S. Prichard Winged Seeds ii. 29 Unluckiest man ever I knew. If it was raining pea soup, he'd only have a fork. < as lemmas |
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