单词 | to white two walls with one brush |
释义 | > as lemmasto white two walls with one brush † to white two walls with one brush and variants: to achieve two aims at once. Cf. to kill two birds with one stone at stone n. 16b. Obsolete. [After classical Latin duo parietes de eadem fidelia dealbare (in a letter of Curius to Cicero: Cicero Epistulae ad Familiares 7. 29. 2).] ΚΠ 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 373 That at anes, as vses to be said, tha wil quhite tua walis [L. ut una ex fidelia duos parietes..dealbarent]. 1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel To R. Butterfield sig. ***3 I doe in this Booke..as the Proverbe is, white two walls with one brush. 1651 T. Hall Pulpit Guarded 41 I shall white two Walls with one Brush, and answer to both these Objections under one head. < as lemmas |
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