| 单词 | blood will tell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblood (also breeding, etc.) will tell P13. blood (also breeding, etc.) will tell: used proverbially to suggest that inborn or hereditary characteristics will ultimately reveal themselves or prevail. ΚΠ 1824 John Bull 5 Apr. 5/2 It is very much with men as it is with horses—blood will tell. 1847 Morning Post 20 Apr. 7/6 The enormous weight of this animal substantiates the adage ‘Breeding will tell’, as he possessed the grazing propensity and perfect symmetry of his far-famed sire. 1874 L. D. Whitson Brenda Merton in Gilbert St. Maurice 261 I have always thought..that birth will tell, and that the traits a child develops in early life will cling to them in all coming years. 1909 Pop. Sci. Nov. 461 We shake our heads over the wayward son, remembering that his father ‘sowed his wild oats’, and we observe ‘like father like son’, or ‘blood will tell’. 1975 Ebony Sept. 155/1 Newchurch does not believe that every foal of a star stallion will be a winner but says the odds are very good that breeding will tell. 2005 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 23 July 20 Oliver, born and raised in a workhouse,..not educated, yet sweet and pure and perfectly mannered. Blood will tell, of course, as Victorians liked to believe. < as lemmas |
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