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单词 to know where the shoe wrings one
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to know where the shoe wrings one
b. In figurative contexts; esp. in the proverbial phrase to know where the shoe wrings one, or variants of this: cf. pinch v. 1b.
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c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 341 I woot best wher wryngeth me my sho.
c1386 G. Chaucer Wife's Prol. 492 He sat ful ofte and song Whan þat his shoo ful bitterly hym wrong.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hiiv My selfe can tell best, where my shoe doth wryng me.
1584 T. Lodge Alarum against Vsurers E iij b We shall finde whereas their shooe wringeth them.
1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. A4v I haue a shooe wrings me to' th heart.
1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 253 Here it is that the King of Spains shoe wrings him.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 314 They see where the shoo wrings him.
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