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单词 say and do not
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say and do not
a. In phrases criticizing a discrepancy between a person's words and actions, or asserting the necessity of good actions in addition to good words, as say and do not, say one thing and do another, say well and do well, etc. Cf. do as I say, not as I do at do v. Phrases 3, say-well n. 1.Frequently in, or with allusion to, Matthew 23:3.
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OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 3 Healdað & wyrceað swa hwæt swa hig secgeaþ & ne do ge na æfter heora worcum; Hig secgeað & ne doð [L. dicunt enim et non faciunt].
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8660 Do swa summ þu seȝȝdesst.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxiii. 3 Sothely thei seien, and don nat.
a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 103 Shal I be like a man þat saiþ & doþe not?
1536 R. Morison Remedy for Sedition sig. E.iii Men say wel that do wel.
1611 Bible (King James) Matt. xxiii. 3 But doe not ye after their workes: for they say, and doe not. View more context for this quotation
1646 J. Bastwick Utter Routing of Army of Independents To Rdr. sig. A4v They are so unrighteous in all their proceedings, and when they say one thing and do and practice another.
1692 tr. Sallust Wks. sig. (a6) So hard a thing it is for a Man to say well and do well.
1758 E. Carter tr. Epictetus Wks. iii. vii. 246 We too say one Thing, and do another: we talk well, and act ill.
1813 Panoplist Dec. 519/1 Those who say and do not rather injure, than subserve the cause which they pretend to espouse.
1846 J. F. Cooper Redskins xv. 218 My children, never forget this. You are not pale-faces, to say one thing and do another. What you say, you do.
1911 Our Paper 23 Sept. 447/2 A man ought to be real in all he says and does. He ought not to say one thing and do another.
1970 Bible (New Eng.) Matt. xxiii. 3 But do not follow their practice; for they say one thing and do another.
2014 Times (Nexis) 8 Oct. (Business section) 37 That's traders for you: say one thing, do another.
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