单词 | pigs fly with their tails forward |
释义 | > as lemmaspigs fly with their tails forward ΚΠ 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. 485v This is a great promise, my good Lord: But when will this be done? when pigges flye with their tayles foreward. 1616 J. Withal Dict. Eng. & Lat. (enlarged ed.) 583 Pigs fly in the ayre with their tayles forward. 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 147/1 Pigs fly in the aire with their tailes forward. 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 189 Pigs fly in the air with their tails forward. 1880 C. H. Spurgeon John Ploughman's Pictures 32 They say that if pigs fly they always go with their tails forward. < as lemmas |
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