| 单词 | there are no atheists in foxholes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthere are no atheists in foxholes Originally U.S. Proverb. there are no atheists in foxholes. Cf. Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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