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单词 the still sow eats all the draff
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the still sow eats all the draff
c. Proverb. the still sow eats all the draff. (Very common in 16–17th centuries.) Cf. the silent sow eats up all the draff at silent adj. and n. Phrases 2. Obsolete.
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c1200 Prov. in MS. Rawlinson C. 641 lf. 13 b/1 Sistille suge fret þere grunninde mete.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. Civv The styll sow eats vp all the draffe Ales.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Acqua queta,..a close, slie, lurking knaue, a stil sow as we say.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. ii. 97 'Tis old, but true, Still Swine eats all the draugh.
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