| 单词 | to be neither sugar nor salt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be neither sugar nor salt b. Proverbial and allusive phrase to be neither sugar nor salt, not to be made of sugar or salt: not likely to be injured by a wetting; not afraid of wet weather. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > perfectly safe [phrase] > not likely to be injured by wetting sugara1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 27 Honestie coupled to beautie, is to haue Honie a sawce to Sugar . View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxvi. 251 Sugar never marred sawce. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy i Sure he's neither sugar nor salt, that he'd melt. 1855 T. Carlyle in E. FitzGerald Lett. & Literary Remains (1889) I. 235 I persist in believing the weather will clear,..at any rate I am not made of sugar or of salt. 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. xv. 254 I am made neither of sugar nor salt... Do you call this rain? < as lemmas |
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