| 单词 | to keep one's breath to cool one's pottage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep one's breath to cool one's pottage † In proverbial phrases. as plain as pottage: obvious, clearly apparent. to keep one's breath to cool one's pottage = to keep one's breath to cool one's porridge (see porridge n. Phrases 1). to make pottage of a flint: to be economical or parsimonious. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly or mean [verb (intransitive)] spare1377 to lick one's knifec1400 chincha1425 pincha1425 stick1533 nig1559 to make pottage of a flintc1576 niggard1596 wretcha1598 niggardize1606 wire-draw1616 screw1820 skincha1825 scrimp1848 stinge1937 to pinch pennies (also a penny)1942 penny-pinch1945 the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > do something with great difficulty to make (a) shift1538 to make pottage of a flintc1576 to get (also wring) water from a flint1597 to make a hard shift1639 c1576 T. Whythorne Autob. (1961) 90 Tush masterz quoþ I, keep yowr breaþz to kooll yowr pottaȝ withall. 1650 H. More Observ. in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 78 Keep your breath to your self to cool your pottage. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 85 For their fare, it was course in the quality, and yet slender in the quantity thereof. Insomuch, that they would, in a manner, make pottage of a flint. 1703 Reason against Presb. Prints 8 Is not this (as we say) as plain as Pottage , as clear as Crystal, to speak in your Dialect? 1875 W. B. Scott Poems l.12 But now the game seems boy's play: keep your breath To cool your pottage, wise old proverbs say. < as lemmas |
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