| 单词 | a son's a son until he takes a wife, but a daughter's a daughter all her life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa son's a son until he takes a wife, but a daughter's a daughter all her life P2. Proverb. a son's a son until he takes a wife, but a daughter's a daughter all her life and variants: used to express the view that, unlike a son, a daughter will maintain a close relationship with her parents, even after her marriage. ΚΠ 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 53 My son's my son, till he hath got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all days of her life. ?1790 Road to Hymen 29 My son is my son, 'till he hath got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. 1894 E. Glanville Fair Colonist iv. 35 It's true of men as of birds—the young forsake the old nest. ‘A son's my son until he takes him a wife, But a daughter's my daughter the whole of my life.’ 1954 Raleigh (W. Va.) Reg. 18 Aug. 4/2 How different my fate might have been had all my children been sons! A son is a son until he takes a wife. 1981 Listener 27 Aug. 206/1 There's a very old-fashioned sort of saying we have in the North which goes, ‘My son is my son till he finds him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter the rest of her life’. 2007 Daily Post (N. Wales) (Nexis) 6 Feb. 24 The old saying ‘A son's a son until he takes a wife, but a daughter's a daughter all her life’ does make me think it may have been nice to have had a girl. < as lemmas |
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