| 单词 | when wine is in, wit is out |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhen wine is in, wit (or truth) is out new wine in old bottles (see Matthew ix. 17). to look on the wine when it is red (see Proverbs xxiii. 31). good wine needs no (ivy)bush (see also bush n.1 5c, ivy-bush n.). when wine is in, wit (or truth) is out. wine and women (Ecclus. xix. heading, King James Bible); also wine, women, and song [compare (esp. with use in quots. 1839, 1862) German Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang, der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang (‘whoever does not love wine, woman, and song remains a fool his whole life long’), frequently attributed to Luther, but not found in his writings.] extracted from winen.1< as lemmas |
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