英语词汇“like lips, like lettuce”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†2. [After post-classical Latin similem habent labra lactucam, an alleged saying of M. Crassus (according to Lucilius, cited in Jerome Epistles 7), when he saw an ass eating thistles.] Coupled with lips in allusive and proverbial contexts, with reference to two things which are suitable or appropriate for each other. Frequently in the proverb like lips, like lettuce (also such lips, such lettuce). Obsolete.

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a1540 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 189/1 No doubt the prouerbe is true, such lippes such lectuse, such saintes such miracles.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1017/2 Like lips like lettice, as is their cause, so are the rulers.

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. L2^v He lefte such lettice as were too fine for his lips.

1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner To Rdrs. sig. Aa^v Here are Lettuses for euery mans lips.

?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 367 Sic lipps, sic lattouce; lordis and lownes.

1619 Pasquils Palinodia To Rdr. sig. A2^v If he like not these Lettice, let him pull backe his lips.

1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. iv. 140 Well, but the Lettice and the Lips do well together.

1713 C. Place Heretical Char. ii. 158 The Devil knows..that the Lettice is fit for the Lips 'tis design'd for.

1897 19th Cent. Oct. 550 Shakespeare and Marlowe to the vile seem vile: Filths savour but themselves. Themselves, that is, and their Ibsens. ‘Like lips, like lettuce.’

单词	like lips, like lettuce
释义	> as lemmas like lips, like lettuce (also such lips, such lettuce) †2. [After post-classical Latin similem habent labra lactucam, an alleged saying of M. Crassus (according to Lucilius, cited in Jerome Epistles 7), when he saw an ass eating thistles.] Coupled with lips in allusive and proverbial contexts, with reference to two things which are suitable or appropriate for each other. Frequently in the proverb like lips, like lettuce (also such lips, such lettuce). Obsolete. ΚΠ a1540 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 189/1 No doubt the prouerbe is true, such lippes such lectuse, such saintes such miracles. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1017/2 Like lips like lettice, as is their cause, so are the rulers. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. L2^v He lefte such lettice as were too fine for his lips. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner To Rdrs. sig. Aa^v Here are Lettuses for euery mans lips. ?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 367 Sic lipps, sic lattouce; lordis and lownes. 1619 Pasquils Palinodia To Rdr. sig. A2^v If he like not these Lettice, let him pull backe his lips. 1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. iv. 140 Well, but the Lettice and the Lips do well together. 1713 C. Place Heretical Char. ii. 158 The Devil knows..that the Lettice is fit for the Lips 'tis design'd for. 1897 19th Cent. Oct. 550 Shakespeare and Marlowe to the vile seem vile: Filths savour but themselves. Themselves, that is, and their Ibsens. ‘Like lips, like lettuce.’ extracted from lettucen. < as lemmas
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