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单词 to appeal from philip drunk to philip sober
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to appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
P2. to appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober (and variants): to suggest that an opinion, etc., represents a passing mood only; to urge someone to give a more considered judgement; to contrast a person's initial opinion with one arrived at after reflection. Now rare.The original allusion is to Philip, King of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, whose response to such an appeal is reported in Valerius Maximus Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6. 2.
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to appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober1531
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xlvv I am no traytoure, apele I woll certayne from dronken Alexander tyll he be sober agayne.]
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. v. sig. Piiiv A poure woman, agayne whom the same kynge had gyuen iugement..cried, I appele... To whom appelist thou said the kyng. I appele, said she, from the, nowe beinge dronke, to kynge Philip the sobre.
1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 33 I appeale from Philip drunken, to Philip sober.
1793 J. Pollock Lett. Inhabitants Newry 68 An appeal from the Committee to the Convention itself might not be, exactly, one ‘from Philip inflamed to Philip sober’.
1873 W. Bates Maclise Portrait-gallery 2 Kinnaird..retaining the document..till he had an opportunity of appealing from Philip drunk to Philip sober, succeeded in dissuading the poet from his angry purpose.
1886 E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew I. i. 5 Not even appealing from Philip drunk to Philip sober.
1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 411/2 He did not speak to Philip drunk as he would to Philip sober.
1973 R. Ellmann Golden Codgers i. 4 This is appealing from Philip Drunk to Philip Sober.
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