英语词汇“the longest pole knocks the persimmon”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P4. the longest pole knocks the persimmon (and variants): the best-placed or most able contender wins.

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1844 Buckeye Eagle 28 Aug. 2/2 in H. Sperber & T. Trittschuh Amer. Polit. Terms (1962) 313/2 David Tod should go there and repeat that original remark of his about the longest pole knocking down the persimmons.

1861 in W. H. Russell My Diary North & South (1863) II. iii. 62 Let both parties meet where there will be no interruption at the scalping business, and the longest pole will knock the persimmon.

1896 Daily News 5 June 5/3 There is..in the Southern States, a proverb..‘The longest pole knocks the persimmon’, i.e. success falls to him who has the most advantages.

1900 F. P. Dunne Mr. Dooley's Philos. 68 ‘I'll jus' move me music back a mile,’ he says, ‘an' peg away, an' th' longest gun takes th' persimmons,’ he says.

1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 314 The tallest pole takes the persimmon.

2000 Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi) (Nexis) 3 Dec. a1 That was considered a general election, not a primary, so the rule was, the long pole gets the persimmon, no runoff.

单词	the longest pole knocks the persimmon
释义	> as lemmas the longest pole knocks the persimmon P4. the longest pole knocks the persimmon (and variants): the best-placed or most able contender wins. ΚΠ 1844 Buckeye Eagle 28 Aug. 2/2 in H. Sperber & T. Trittschuh Amer. Polit. Terms (1962) 313/2 David Tod should go there and repeat that original remark of his about the longest pole knocking down the persimmons. 1861 in W. H. Russell My Diary North & South (1863) II. iii. 62 Let both parties meet where there will be no interruption at the scalping business, and the longest pole will knock the persimmon. 1896 Daily News 5 June 5/3 There is..in the Southern States, a proverb..‘The longest pole knocks the persimmon’, i.e. success falls to him who has the most advantages. 1900 F. P. Dunne Mr. Dooley's Philos. 68 ‘I'll jus' move me music back a mile,’ he says, ‘an' peg away, an' th' longest gun takes th' persimmons,’ he says. 1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 314 The tallest pole takes the persimmon. 2000 Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi) (Nexis) 3 Dec. a1 That was considered a general election, not a primary, so the rule was, the long pole gets the persimmon, no runoff. extracted from persimmonn.adj. < as lemmas
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