| 单词 | the pot goes so long to the water that it is broken at last |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe pot goes so long (also often) to the water that it is broken at last P2. †the pot goes so long (also often) to the water that it is broken at last: an action or approach which is successful at first may fail if repeated too often. Cf. the pitcher goes often to the well, but is broken at last at pitcher n.1 Phrases 2. ΚΠ 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 206 (MED) Me couþe zigge, ‘zuo longe geþ þet pot to þe wetere þet hit comþ to-broke hom.’ ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 82 It is a trew prouerbe þat ‘the pott may goo so longe to water that atte the laste it is broken’. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 126 (MED) ‘Bot so long goys the pott to the water,’ men says, ‘At last Comys it home broken.’ 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. v. 11 That the Pot which goes often to the Water, comes home crack'd at last. 1865 F. Lockwe-Lampson Russet Pitcher in Select. Wks 83 The pot goeth so long to the water til at length it commeth broken home. < as lemmas |
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