单词 | to wipe one's nose with one's sleeve |
释义 | > as lemmasto wipe one's nose with (also on) one's sleeve ΚΠ a1475 ( Libel Eng. Policy (Vitell.) 176 (MED) Thus they wold..Wypen our nose with our owne sleve. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Liiv I maie..make ye wype your nose vpon your sleeue. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique f. 96 My maister your father hath many a tyme & ofte wipt his nose vpon his sleeue, meanyng that his father was a fishemonger. 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle v. i. sig. Diiii She will..byd you seeke your remedy, and so go wype your nose. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Nez They wipe his nose with his owne sleeue, his taile with his owne shirt; they allow him meat, or meanes, out of his owne money. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 160 It was used in that good old world, when men wiped their nose on their sleeve (as the French man sayes). 1666 G. Torrino Prov. Phrases 114 To wipe ones nose with ones sleeve, viz. to be a sloven and ill bred. 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 108 Jack would wipe his nose if he had it. < as lemmas |
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