单词 | one hand washes the other |
释义 | > as lemmasone hand washes the other e. one hand washes the other and variants: with reference to cooperation and the reciprocation of actions, assistance, etc., for mutual benefit. Cf. you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours at scratch v. 2c. Now chiefly North American. [After ancient Greek ἁ δὲ χεὶρ τὰν χεῖρα νίζει; compare classical Latin manus manum lavat (Seneca Apocolocyntosis 9).] ΚΠ 1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale iii. f. 41v As it were one hande washeth an other [L. ita enim χεὶρ χεῖρα νίπτει], and one man aideth an other. 1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Garden of Pleasure f. 110v One hand washeth an other, and both wash the face [It. Una man' laua l'altra, e tutte due lauan' il viso]. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. i. ii. 17 He that writes often, shall often receiue letters for answere: for one hand washeth another. 1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman II. ii. iv. 118 One hand washes the other hand, and both hands wash the Face. 1772 Recantation & Confession Dr. Kenrick 5 One hand washes another, as the saying is. 1836 P. Hone Diary 12 Mar. (1927) I. 203 Persons in business..make, as the saying is, ‘one hand wash the other’. 1885 Harper's Mag. Nov. 842/2 A ‘wash’—one hand washing the other—is an arrangement between brokers whereby one fictitiously buys what the other fictitiously sells..to keep up or advance the price. 1961 J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) iv. 33 One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. 2002 New Republic 28 Jan. 21/2 Part of the reason..is the sense that one hand washes the other. < as lemmas |
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