英语词汇“to play on both hands”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(a) to play on (also with) both hands: to practise double dealing, act with duplicity. Now archaic and rare.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > act evasively [verb (intransitive)] > practise double-dealing

double1530

to play on (also with) both hands1530

to run with hare and hounds1573

to have (also wear) two faces1889

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement f. cl/1 If ones appercyue you howe you play on bothe y^e hands he wyll neuer truste you after.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. Ciii Colle vnder canstyk she can plaie on both hands, Dissimulacion well she vnderstands.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xi. 70 The kyng of ingland playit vitht baytht the handis.

1604 N. Breton Grimellos Fortunes sig. C^v Thou wouldest neither carrie a ring, clawe a backe, plaie on both hands, be no wagge-wanton, with thy mistresse, nor Iudas with thy maister.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 358 He slew..King of the Hunnes, for playing on both hands.

1763 Patriotism i. 10 These old attornies are damn'd slippery fellows, and can play with both hands.

1859 J. Browne Ten Lect. Ward's Errata x. 498 This double dealing; this playing with both hands was very unlike the conduct of the Apostles.

1913 J. Cartwright Christina of Denmark vi. 193 ‘There are those’, he said mysteriously, ‘who play on both hands; they tell Your Excellency many things, and us somewhat.’

单词	to play on both hands
释义	> as lemmas to play on (also with) both hands (a) to play on (also with) both hands: to practise double dealing, act with duplicity. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > act evasively [verb (intransitive)] > practise double-dealing double1530 to play on (also with) both hands1530 to run with hare and hounds1573 to have (also wear) two faces1889 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement f. cl/1 If ones appercyue you howe you play on bothe y^e hands he wyll neuer truste you after. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. Ciii Colle vnder canstyk she can plaie on both hands, Dissimulacion well she vnderstands. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xi. 70 The kyng of ingland playit vitht baytht the handis. 1604 N. Breton Grimellos Fortunes sig. C^v Thou wouldest neither carrie a ring, clawe a backe, plaie on both hands, be no wagge-wanton, with thy mistresse, nor Iudas with thy maister. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 358 He slew..King of the Hunnes, for playing on both hands. 1763 Patriotism i. 10 These old attornies are damn'd slippery fellows, and can play with both hands. 1859 J. Browne Ten Lect. Ward's Errata x. 498 This double dealing; this playing with both hands was very unlike the conduct of the Apostles. 1913 J. Cartwright Christina of Denmark vi. 193 ‘There are those’, he said mysteriously, ‘who play on both hands; they tell Your Excellency many things, and us somewhat.’ extracted from handn. < as lemmas
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