| 单词 | time and tide wait for no man |
| 释义 | > as lemmastime and tide wait (also tarry, etc.) for no man f. time and tide wait (also tarry, etc.) for no man.Cf. tide nor time tarrieth no man at tide n. 13b. ΚΠ 1577 J. Caldwell Serm. preached before Earle of Darbie sig. Bv For hee knoweth that time and tide will tarye for no man. 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 233 Time and tide tary on no man. 1767 ‘A. Barton’ Disappointment ii. i. 34 Let's step into the state-room, and turn in: you know the old saying, ‘time and tide waits for no one.’ ?1780 R. Lewis Pleasing Moralist I. xiii. 130 What can more strongly represent the imprudence of procrastination, than to remark that ‘Delays are dangerous’, that..‘Time and tide wait for no man’? 1825 R. Sharp Let. 31 Jan. in Diary (1997) 16 The guide is like Time and Tide he waits for no man. 1881 Lady D. Hardy Through Cities & Prairie Lands xxviii. 330 The Boston boat was at the pier, and time and tide wait for no woman, even in this chivalrous land. 1935 J. Masefield Box of Delights i. 21 Time and Tide and Buttered eggs wait for no man. 1977 C. V. Whitney High Peaks Pref. p. x So now on with the High Peaks, for time and tide wait for no man. 2000 S. Brett Body on Beach (2001) xli. 325 Still, better go back to the little woman. Time, tide and Sandra wait for no man, eh? < as lemmas |
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