英语词汇“mud sticks”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P6. mud (also dirt, shit, etc.) sticks and variants: disparaging or malicious allegations are difficult to disprove or shake off.

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1656 G. Kendall Clerk of Surveigh Surveighed Author to Bk. sig. C^v Some dirt will stick, if dirt enough we cast, Thus we his credit weaken shall at last.

1678 B. R. Let. Popish Friends 7 'Tis a blessed Line in Matchiavel—If durt enough be thrown, some will stick.

1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. ii. 11 Fling Dirt enough, and some will stick.

1795 T. Lindsey in J. Priestley Answer to Mr. Paine's Age of Reason Pref. p. xxv This paper..had a standing order to calumniate Dr. Priestley at all seasons, under the notion that some of their dirt must stick.

1877 H. James American xxiv. 437 You propose to throw mud at us; you believe, you hope, that some of it may stick.

1895 Nation (N.Y.) 4 Apr. 255/2 Baseless falsehoods. His only decoration was given by Charles Albert. But ‘mud sticks’.

1925 W. Martyn Recluse of Fifth Avenue iv. 81 If enough mud is thrown at a man..some of it will stick.

1956 J. Wyndham Seeds of Time (1960) 193 All the same, some of the mud might stick.

2001 G. White Night Visitor (2002) 235 Innocent though he was, shit sticks—there's no smoke without fire—his reputation would be tarnished and that he could not risk.

2003 S. Montefiore Forget-me-not Sonata (2014) xxv. 345 Divorce is a very dirty word and dirt sticks wherever you are in the world.

单词	mud sticks
释义	> as lemmas mud (also dirt, shit, etc.) sticks P6. mud (also dirt, shit, etc.) sticks and variants: disparaging or malicious allegations are difficult to disprove or shake off. ΚΠ 1656 G. Kendall Clerk of Surveigh Surveighed Author to Bk. sig. C^v Some dirt will stick, if dirt enough we cast, Thus we his credit weaken shall at last. 1678 B. R. Let. Popish Friends 7 'Tis a blessed Line in Matchiavel—If durt enough be thrown, some will stick. 1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. ii. 11 Fling Dirt enough, and some will stick. 1795 T. Lindsey in J. Priestley Answer to Mr. Paine's Age of Reason Pref. p. xxv This paper..had a standing order to calumniate Dr. Priestley at all seasons, under the notion that some of their dirt must stick. 1877 H. James American xxiv. 437 You propose to throw mud at us; you believe, you hope, that some of it may stick. 1895 Nation (N.Y.) 4 Apr. 255/2 Baseless falsehoods. His only decoration was given by Charles Albert. But ‘mud sticks’. 1925 W. Martyn Recluse of Fifth Avenue iv. 81 If enough mud is thrown at a man..some of it will stick. 1956 J. Wyndham Seeds of Time (1960) 193 All the same, some of the mud might stick. 2001 G. White Night Visitor (2002) 235 Innocent though he was, shit sticks—there's no smoke without fire—his reputation would be tarnished and that he could not risk. 2003 S. Montefiore Forget-me-not Sonata (2014) xxv. 345 Divorce is a very dirty word and dirt sticks wherever you are in the world. extracted from stickv.¹ < as lemmas
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