| 单词 | to laugh and grow fat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto laugh and grow (also be) fat b. to laugh and grow (also be) fat. ΚΠ 1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. Fv I dare vndertake, this answer will satisfie my Lord Mayor of London, and many of the worshipful of the Citie, that make sweete gaines of stinking wares, and will laugh and be fat. 1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 169 So many people, like Mithridates, or the Maid in Pliny, live upon that, laugh and grow fat with that, that would ruine others. 1777 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions VI. cxxxv. 180 Laugh and grow fat is my rule. 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Housh. Managem. xxi. 464 ‘Laugh and grow fat’ is a good maxim. 1873 Phrenol. Jrnl. Sept. 155/1 We have an old adage which runs, ‘laugh and be fat,’ which, I think, is largely corroborated by human experience. 1955 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 13 344 Folk-thought speaks of the ‘saving sense of humor’, it advises: ‘Laugh and grow fat.’ 2009 Corkman (Nexis) 30 Apr. Her motto in life was ‘laugh and grow fat’ and she was a lady who was never in bad humour or angry. < as lemmas |
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