英语词汇“there goes but a pair of shears between them”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†e. In proverbial use. there goes but a pair of shears between them, they match each other as if cut from the same cloth; they are ‘of a piece’ (very common in 16–17th centuries). chalk is not shears (Scottish), chalking the cloth is not cutting it. Obsolete.

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1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 8 The Sympathia of affections and as it were but a payre of sheeres to goe betweene theire natures.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 27 There went but a paire of sheeres betweene vs.

1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 98 There went but a paire of sheeres between a Papist and a Protestant, and not a pinne to choose of what religion a man is.

1643 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 314 I feir me they sall be long in concluding, as we say in the comon proverbe ‘Calke is no sheyres’.

单词	there goes but a pair of shears between them
释义	> as lemmas there goes but a pair of shears between them †e. In proverbial use. there goes but a pair of shears between them, they match each other as if cut from the same cloth; they are ‘of a piece’ (very common in 16–17th centuries). chalk is not shears (Scottish), chalking the cloth is not cutting it. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 8 The Sympathia of affections and as it were but a payre of sheeres to goe betweene theire natures. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 27 There went but a paire of sheeres betweene vs. View more context for this quotation 1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 98 There went but a paire of sheeres between a Papist and a Protestant, and not a pinne to choose of what religion a man is. 1643 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 314 I feir me they sall be long in concluding, as we say in the comon proverbe ‘Calke is no sheyres’. extracted from shearn.¹ < as lemmas
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