单词 | wilful waste makes woeful want |
释义 | > as lemmaswilful waste makes woeful want P3. Proverb. wilful waste makes woeful want and variants. Cf. waste not, want not at want v. Phrases 3. ΚΠ 1642 That Great Exped. for Ireland 11 Now if famine punish excesse, if wofull want follow wilfull waste, [etc.]. 1696 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. IV. xxi. 80 He would have us Thrifty, but not Niggardly; wilful waste brings woful want. 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) at Waste Wilful Waste makes woful Want. 1788 M. W. Sacred Outcry iii. i. 188 If ‘a wilful Waste makes a woeful Want’, it is very certain, in the natural Course of Things, that Luxury must destroy the Substance, and bring on Distress and Poverty. 1829 E. Hewlett Cottage Comforts (ed. 6) xii. 195 For daintiness or wastefulness I should think the loss of a meal a suitable punishment; you tell a child that ‘wilful waste makes woeful want,’ and you thus give him a slight specimen of the inconvenience to which his fault naturally leads. 1877 A. F. Samuels Daisy Travers iv. 52 ‘I don't care for stolen fruit... Open the window and throw them out.’ ‘Why, that would be a wilful waste, an' “wilful waste makes woeful want”.’ 1936 R. G. Plowhead Lucretia Ann on Sagebrush Plains v. 99 Was not ‘wilful waste makes woeful want,’ one of her favorite mottoes? Would not discarding so many yards of expensive silk because of its brightness of color be wilful waste? 2012 B. Lawrence How to feed your Family for £5 a Day 6 I try not to waste food or throw it away, and turn leftover ingredients into meals. ‘Wilful waste makes woeful want’ after all, and food waste is a major global issue. < as lemmas |
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