单词 | as the —— said to the |
释义 | > as lemmasas the —— said to the —— c. Introducing the ascription of a proverbial or familiar saying, typically in as the —— said to the ——. Cf. Wellerism n.as the actress said to the bishop: see actress n. 2b.For an earlier form of this type of ascription, see quoth v. 1 (e.g. quots. c1175 at sense 1bα. , 1862 at sense 1bε. ). ΚΠ 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 10 Alas here is fatte feeding, & leane beasts: or as one said at the shearing of hogs, great cry & litle wool. 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iv. xxiii. 575 Let us behold ourselves, as one blinde man said to another. 1785 J. O'Keeffe Fontainbleau iii. 60 First come first served, as father says to his customers in the shop at home. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 322 There's sma' sorrow at our parting, as the auld mare said to the broken cart. 1839 Boston Morning Post 9 Jan. 2/2 Wellerisms.—‘It does one's heart good to look at you,’ as the fox said to the chickens, when he found he couldn't get over the barn-yard wall, to eat them. 1904 V. S. Lean Collectanea IV. 19 'Tis nothing when you are used to it, as the eels said when they were being skinned alive. 1917 J. C. Bridge Cheshire Prov. 96 Naught's impossible, as t'auld woman said when they told her cauf had swallowed grindlestone. 1978 G. Mitchell Wraiths & Changelings xi. 111 What shall we do wiv it?–as the Cockney said to his wife when he found..a bathroom in his municipal flat. 2000 Z. Smith White Teeth (2001) viii. 192 We're all English now, mate. Like it or lump it, as the rhubarb said to the custard. < as lemmas |
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