| 单词 | to row one way and look another |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto row one way and look another P5. to look one way and row another (also to row one way and look another): to say one thing while thinking or doing another; to be duplicitous, hypocritical, or double-dealing. Now rare.Common in the 17th cent., often with similative or allusive reference to rowers (here esp. the Thames watermen) facing backwards while moving forwards. ΚΠ 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Pv And so imitate the waterman whiche lookethe one waye, and roweth another. 1610 S. Rowlands Roome for Messe of Knaues sig. Bv Hee's a dogged knaue, and will bite before he barke... His deuise is, a Waterman, looking one way and rowing another. a1632 T. Dekker Wonder of Kingdome (1636) sig. G4v Now in good sooth my Lord, shee has but vs'd you As watermen use their fares, for shee look'd one way, And row'd another. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 138 My Great Grand-father was but a Water-man, looking one way, and Rowing another; and I got most of my Estate by the same occupation. View more context for this quotation 1728 Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 650 Certain it was that in her Court there were persons that looked one way and rowed another. 1802 L. Chester Federalism Triumphant iv. 35 I'm tired to death of these Waterman politicians, looking one way and rowing another, in religion or politics. 1937 R. W. Winston It's Far Cry iii. xxvi. 344 Southern leaders should not be forced to row one way and look another. < as lemmas |
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