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单词 to stop two gaps with one bush
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to stop two gaps with one bush
b. Phrase. to stop two gaps with one bush: ‘to kill two birds with one stone’, to accomplish two ends at once. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (intransitive)] > accomplish two ends at once
to stop two gaps with one bush1546
to kill two birds with one stone1632
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Fivv I will learne to stop two gaps with one bushe.
1638 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 97 This common usage of the phrase, as it well preserveth the sence, so doth it also (that I may stop two gaps with one bush) justifie the truth of this charge in my text.
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