| 单词 | scratch a —— and find a |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscratch a —— and find a f. scratch a —— and find a —— and variants: suggesting the true or fundamental character of any particular group, nation, etc.In some cases scratch is interpreted as meaning ‘to wound superficially’: see quots. under sense 1a. ΚΠ c1863 J. R. Green Let. in Notes & Queries (1965) Sept. 348 They say, if you scratch a Russian you always find the Tartar beneath. 1888 M. Oliphant Second Son I. xiv. 242 I don't put any faith in Russians... ‘Scratch a Russian and you'll come to the Tartar.’ 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto III. ii. vi. 81 Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan—spoiled. 1924 G. B. Shaw St. Joan iv. 52 Scratch an Englishman, and find a Protestant. 1926 D. Parker Enough Rope 60 Scratch a lover, and find a foe. 1966 Listener 10 Feb. 217/3 Scratch a Muse and as often as not you find nothing you can fathom, not even a woman. 1973 Freedom 2 June 3/4 ‘Scratch a liberal and you find a fascist,’ says Westall. What bloody nonsense is this? Did he invent the saying himself to fit his present convenience? And what do you get when you scratch a Tory, a Fabian, a Social Democrat, a Marxist-Leninist? 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds xvii. 445 Scratch Justine's surface and you find a rebel. < as lemmas |
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