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单词 there are no atheists in foxholes
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there are no atheists in foxholes
Originally U.S. Proverb. there are no atheists in foxholes. Cf. Compounds 1b.
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1942 N.Y. Times 13 Apr. 3/5 He and a sergeant, who shared the same fox-hole, prayed audibly during one particularly heavy bombing attack. The sergeant..observed afterward that ‘there are no atheists in fox-holes’.
1967 M. Holmes Love & Laughter 398 Men say there are no atheists in foxholes. Women can testify that there are no atheists in delivery rooms.
2000 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. iv. 15/1 There are no atheists in foxholes, and no purist free-marketeers in banking crises.
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