单词 | if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen |
释义 | > as lemmasif you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen Proverb. if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen and variants: if you cannot cope with the pressures and difficulties of a situation, you should leave others to deal with it rather than complaining.ⓘUsed originally with reference to politics and often associated with Harry S. Truman, U.S. President 1945–53, who popularized the phrase.Quot. 1931 is cited by some sources, in an incorrect form, as the first use of this phrase, but the original newspaper text does not in fact include the words can't stand the heat; however the phrase actually used is clearly similar in intent. ΚΠ 1931 Independence (Missouri) Examiner 1 Jan. 1/2 But if a fellow doesn't want to get hot once in a while he had better stay out of the kitchen.] 1942 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 12 July 7/6 Favorite rejoinder of Sen. Harry S. Truman, when a member of his war contracts investigating committee objects to his strenuous pace. ‘If you don’t like the heat, get out of the kitchen.’ 1952 Time 28 Apr. 19/1 The President [sc. Truman] gave a..down-to-earth reason for his retirement, quoting a favorite expression of his military jester, Major General Harry Vaughan: ‘If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen’. 2020 Daily Express 10 Mar. 44/4 With the ongoing saga of the resignation of Sir Philip Rutnam, Richard Madeley has it spot on: if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. < as lemmas |
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