| 单词 | schoolboy rule |
| 释义 | > as lemmasschoolboy rule schoolboy rule n. a rule learnt as a schoolboy; (also) an elementary or basic rule or principle (of a particular subject or discipline). ΚΠ 1687 E. Settle Refl. Dryden's Plays 6 This great pretender to Learning has not wit enough to make an Allegory, but violates the common School-boy Rules of sence. 1700 E. Ward Journey to Hell 7 He more learn'd in School-Boy Rules repairs To Leyden, where he's taught to stand the Bears. 1826 Orient Herald & Jrnl. Gen. Lit. 8 253 As to..strengthening the natural defences..by the application of the commonest schoolboy rules of art, the thought seldom enters an officer's head. 1854 Proc. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 8 125 It is a schoolboy rule that two negatives make an affirmative. 1994 M. R. Katz tr. I. Turgenev Fathers & Sons 37 We're genuine Russians, and at the same time, we're grandees who're allowed to ignore schoolboy rules of grammar. < as lemmas |
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