| 单词 | something is better than nothing |
| 释义 | > as lemmassomething is better than nothing a. something is better than nothing and variants: it is better to receive a portion of or alternative to what one wants than to receive nothing at all. [Compare Middle French mieulx vault aucun bien que neant (c1401).] ΚΠ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. D And by this prouerbe appereth this o thyng, That alwaie somewhat is better than nothyng. 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iii. vii. 181 I will weare it as I may: for something is better then nothing. 1726 T. Burnett Demonstr. True Relig. 35 Being is better, than not being, or something is better, than nothing. 1831 Lancet 23 Apr. 124/1 The merest tyro in political economy knows..that something is better than nothing; that half a loaf is better than no bread. 1951 Law & Contemp. Probl. 16 46 Pending Utopia, it is suggested, something is better than nothing. 1992 L. E. Goodman Neoplatonism & Jewish Thought 186 Something is better than nothing; a world in which evolution occurs is better than one in which no such process is possible. 2013 Huffington Post (Nexis) 30 Oct. The piecemeal approach is not totally bad. Something is better than nothing. < as lemmas |
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