| 单词 | old sin makes new shame |
| 释义 | > as lemmasold sin makes new shame P1. Proverbs and proverbial uses, as old sin makes new shame, a man is as old as one feels, etc. ΚΠ c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 638 (MED) Auorbisne is of olde iwrne, Þat node makeþ old wif urne. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2461 (MED) Old sinne makes newe shame. a1500 (a1471) G. Ashby Active Policy Prince 615 in Poems (1899) 32 (MED) Aftur the oolde dogge the yonge whelpe barkes. 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 213 (MED) Thus synnes olde make shames come full newe. 1621 T. W. in tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard To Rdr. sig. A iv The wise Old Man..seemes to glance at our English Proverb: No foole to the old foole. 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies viii. 60 There is none so desperately old, but he hopes to live one yeere longer. 1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master i. i As the proverb says, put an old cat to an old rat. 1691 R. Cromwell Let. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1898) 13 109 There is an old proverb ‘old yong, yong old’. 1871 V. Lush Thames Jrnls. 27 Aug. (1975) 114 She is always making me out so much older than I am and that's not fair, for a man is only as old as he feels, and a woman is only as old as she looks. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 10 Oct. 3/2 What is the popular saying?—‘A man is as old as he feels’. 1984 A. Brookner Hotel du Lac (1985) viii. 111 Age is relative... You're as old as you feel. < as lemmas |
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