| 单词 | as stubborn as a mule |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas stubborn (also obstinate) as a mule In proverbs and proverbial phrases. †to shoe (this, one's, etc.) mule: to provide or take advantage of monetary resources (obsolete). †one mule doth scrub another: one fool flatters another (obsolete). as stubborn (also obstinate) as a mule: very stubborn. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > obstinate or stubborn person > proverbially mule1564 1564–78 W. Bullein Dial. against Fever Pestilence (1888) 86 The Mule carieth a Maister that will dooe nothyng but for golde, and the fooles of the worlde that loue debate and strief must shooe this Mule. a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse iii. iv. 59 in Poems (1638) I need not flatter these, they'le doe't themselves, And crosse the Proverb that was wont to say One Mule doth scrub another. 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion iii. 75 He had the keeping..of the Moneyes, and yet shod not his Mule at all. 1751 Mem. Lady of Quality in T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxviii. 158 Some people..have actually believed him a good-natured easy creature..; but, upon further acquaintance, they have always found him obstinate as a mule, and capricious as a monkey. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 152 The captain..becomes stubborn as a mule, and unmanageable as an elephant unbroke. 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee xiii, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 260 She was as obstinate as a mule on that point. 1853 J. Y. Akerman Wiltshire Tales 138 As cam and as obstinate as a mule. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 411 The likes of her! Stag that one is. Stubborn as a mule! 1987 S. Beauman Destiny 268 Jean-Paul can be as stubborn as a mule, and you knew perfectly well that..he would have dug in his heels and insisted. < as lemmas |
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