| 单词 | will is no skill |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswill is no skill P3. In allusive or proverbial phrases, coupled with skill (in †will is no skill: cf. skill n.1 3), well, wishes, or wit, and esp. opposed to deed, chiefly in to take the will for the deed.where there's a will there's a way: see way n.1 and int.1 Phrases 8b. ΚΠ c1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 65 Hwenne-so wil wit ofer-stieð Þenne is wil and wit for-lore. ?a1300 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Digby) xli, in Anglia (1881) 4 199 Muchel of his wille abit, þat wel may þolien. c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) l. 221 Wyll for dede oft ys take. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Aiii But haue ye not herde say, that wyll is no skyll. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lx. 134 Where wee cannot doe what is inioyned vs [God] accepteth our will to doe in stead of the deede it selfe. 1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry To Rdr. sig. b2 The reasonable will accept the will for the deed. 1801 C. Lamb Let. 16 Sept. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1976) II. 19 In this little scrawl, you must take the will for the deed. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. i. iii. 17 Oh, sir, it is not the deed—it is the will. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xiv. 165 We will take the will for the deed, as the common people express it. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. vi. 109 He had a saying: Two wishes make a will. 2016 @majanovelist 27 Feb. in twitter.com (OED Archive) I'll take the will for the deed. Thank you, honey! < as lemmas |
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