| 单词 | one nail drives out another |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone nail drives out another a. one nail drives out another and variants: an unpleasant or difficult event or circumstance is often dispelled or displaced by another. Also to drive out one nail with (also by) another [compare classical Latin clāvō clāvum eicere, Hellenistic Greek ἥλῳ ἐκκρούειν τὸν ἧλον, ancient Greek ἥλῳ ὁ ἧλος ἐκκρούεται] . ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > substitute [phrase] one nail drives out another?c1225 quid pro quo1560 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 296 Alswa as þe an neil [a1250 Titus nail] driueð ut þe oðer. alse þe brune of godes luue driueð þe brune of ful luue ut of þe heorte. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 25 (MED) Þanne þe kyng drof out on nayle wiþ anoþer [L. clavo clavum expellens] and took wreche of a gyle by a gyle. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xii. 113 Leat therefore one nayle driue out another nayle. 1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 191 One danger is expelled by an other, As one nayle is driuen out by an other. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iv. 191 Euen as one heate, another heate expels, Or as one naile, by strength driues out another. View more context for this quotation 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 357 They rather sought by one Nail to drive out another, than openly to denounce War against them. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiv. 339 It was necessary, reply'd I, that one Nail should drive out another; for thou'dst been repining still, had not Mr. Murray been turn'd over to thee. 1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard I. i. i. 21 Let me advise you on no account to fly to strong waters for consolation, Joan. One nail drives out another, it's true; but the worst nail you can employ is a coffinnail. 1874 Ld. Lytton Fables in Song II. 57 By the last disease the first was swallow'd, Just as one nail drives out another one. 1900 Athenæum 27 Oct. 547/2 Nail drives out nail. 1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking iii. 399 A phrase she learned from her mother.., specifically in reference to how to handle the ending of a love affair: ‘One nail drives out another’. < as lemmas |
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