| 单词 | bad is the best |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbad is the best b. bad is the best: the best option available is still a poor one (frequently implying resigned acceptance of this state of affairs). Now rare. ΚΠ 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 57v Badde is the best, the world amendes lyke sower ale in Sommer. a1644 F. Quarles Solomon's Recantation (1648) ii. 11 Take what may be had; Bad is the best, then make the best of bad. 1719 T. Killigrew Chit-chat i. 6 I confess bad is the best. 1800 M. Edgeworth Will in Pop. Tales (1804) I. iv. 172 Bad's the best, if that be the best of her characters. 1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. ii. 45 The meal was as good as the island could afford, but ‘bad is the best’ here. 1905 H. A. Evans Highways & Byways in Oxf. & Cotswolds ix. 218 The reader will exclaim that bad is the best. 1958 Proc. Aristotelian Soc., Suppl. Vol. 32 172 This seems the best choice for the advocate of propositional identity; but, as Lewy is well aware, bad is the best. < as lemmas |
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