| 单词 | best-laid plans |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbest-laid plans 2. Of a plan, scheme, etc.: formulated most carefully or meticulously. Now chiefly in best-laid plans with allusion to quot. 1786. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [adjective] > planned > well or badly well-deviseda1425 well-laid1533 well-calculated1593 well-laid1595 well-designed1624 best-laida1626 ill-contrived1632 well-planned1728 well-schemed1728 set piece1947 a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) 998 The best laid plotts, whith [sic] Him [sc. God], prove no better but even as uncertaine lotts, but even hap-hazard, if He list to disappoint them. 1689 G. Burnet Serm. preached before Prince of Orange 31 It will be easie for him [sc. God]..to defeat even the greatest and best-laid Designs. 1786 R. Burns To Mouse vii, in Poems 140 The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley. 1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. 241 To frustrate all our best-laid plans. 1846 Bentley's Misc. 20 326 But mark how the best laid schemes will sometimes prove abortive! 1861 J. M. Rymer Edith the Captive I. 327/2 Are all our best-laid plots and arrangements at the mercy of Heron, the highwayman? 1939 V. Sackville-West Let. 1 Sept. in Lett. to V. Woolf (1984) 359 I had meant to ring you up and ask if Nigel and I might come to luncheon tomorrow, but my best-laid plans have gone agley. 1986 Dædalus Summer 150 ‘Micro-social’ effects..can create major perturbations in the best-laid human plans and social trends. 2000 Independent 12 June (Monday Review section) 4/1 We gain an obscure satisfaction from watching our best-laid plans go down the plughole. < as lemmas |
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