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单词 to reap where has sown
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to reap where (a person) has sown
P1. to reap where (a person) has sown and variants [after Matthew 25:24, 25:26 (compare especially quots. OE, c1384, 1535)] : to enjoy the rewards of (a person's) labour; frequently in negative contexts, with implication of dishonest gain.
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OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xxv. 26 Meto ubi non semino : ic hrippo [OE West Saxon Gospels: Corpus Cambr. rype, c1200 Hatton ripe] ðer ne seawu ic.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxv. 24 I wote that thou art an hard man; thou repist wher thou hast nat sewen, and thou gederist to gidre wher thou hast nat spreedde abrood.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. xxv. 26 I reape where I sowed not.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 30v As thou hast reaped where an other hath sowen.
1673 M. Stevenson Poems 33 We have a custom, no where else is known, For here we reap, where nothing e're was sown.
1798 G. Papendick Stranger iii. v. 50 My sons will never desire to reap where they have not sown.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. xix. 286 Thou art one of those, who would reap where thou hast not sowed, and divide the spoil while others fight the battle.
a1861 A. H. Clough Poems (1865) 130 Let moderns reap where ancients sowed.
1988 J. Trollope Choir xiv. 265 In this life, Frank said more than once, you can only reap where you have sown.
1999 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 28 July 1/3 Our team recently..witnessed a constant stream of policemen shamelessly coming to reap where they have not sown.
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