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单词 obey orders, if you break owners
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obey orders, if (also though) you break owners
P2. Nautical Proverb. obey orders, if (also though) you break owners and variants: obey orders, even when they are wrong or misguided, or involve doing wrong.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > obey or be obedient [verb (intransitive)] > obey orders even when wrong
obey orders, if (also though) you break owners1802
1782 W. Gordon Let. 30 Nov. in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1930) LXIII. 476 You will be safe, though you break orders that would break your owners.]
1802 S. Dorr Let. 1 Aug. in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1945) 67 320 Adhere to the Vulgar Adage (nevertheless true) Obey Orders or break Owners.
1828 J. Neal Rachel Dyer xx. 248 You're but a child however, and so I forgive you, and the more's the pity; must obey orders if we break owners.
1849 H. Melville Redburn vi. 45 The motto is, ‘Obey orders, though you break owners’.
1915 J. E. Patterson Epist. from Deep Seas xiv. 300 There was the unwritten shipboard law: ‘Obey orders, even if you break owners.’
1924 R. Clements Gipsy of Horn iii. 50 What could be sounder than ‘Obey orders, if you break owners’—meaning, do as you're told, even if you know it's wrong.
1975 J. R. L. Anderson Death in North Sea (1976) iv. 73 I was brought up on the old sea maxim, ‘Obey orders if you break owners.’
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