| 单词 | near is my shirt but nearer is my skin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnear is my shirt but nearer is my skin (c) near is my shirt but nearer is my skin and variants: a person's own needs and interests take precedence over those of those of his or her closest friends or relatives.Cf. c1450 at shirt v. 1. ΚΠ ?1577 A. Bourcher Worthy Myrour (single sheet) Neerer is my Skin, then Shirte. 1614 T. Godwin Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia ii. iii. v. 83 Close sitteth my shirt, but closer sitteth my skinne. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon 25 My Shirt (quoth he) is near me, but my Skin in nearer: Whilst I take care of the Welfare of other Folks, no body can blame me, to apply a little Balsam to my own Sores. 1890 T. H. Hall Caine Bondman x. 207 ‘We can't trust you,’ said Thurstan... ‘What! Not your own brother?’ said Jacob. “Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin,” as the saying is.’ 1970 H. Arendt On Violence 78 Self-interest, when asked to yield to ‘true’ interest—that is, the interest of the world as distinguished from that of the self—will always reply, Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin. < as lemmas |
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