英语词汇“you can't eat gold”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. to eat gold: to believe (erroneously) that one can subsist on great wealth alone. Often in negative constructions, as you can't eat gold and variants.In quot. 1599 with reference to the story of King Midas, who wished that everything he touched should turn to gold, and almost died of hunger as a consequence of this wish being granted (see the etymology at Midas n.).

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1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 39 That fable of Midas eating gold had no other shadow or inclusiue pith in it, but he was of a queasie stomacke.

a1626 W. Rowley New Wonder (1632) i. 14 And he that gets Gold, let him eate Gold.

1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body iii. iv. 35 If wearing Pearls and Jewels, or eating Gold, as the old Saying is, can make thee happy, thou shalt be so.

1875 Myrtle 29 May 34/2 He couldn't eat gold, he couldn't drink it. Bright as it was, it couldn't show him the door, the feeblest rushlight could do that.

1918 J. Therese With Old Glory in Berlin viii. 94 He had..a wide circle of business friends who..supplied the ‘open sesame’ to many a secret door behind which was stored something far more precious than gold (you can't eat gold).

2017 Cairns Eye (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Jan. 11 As the Alaskans will tell you, ‘You can't eat gold.’

单词	you can't eat gold
释义	> as lemmas you can't eat gold d. to eat gold: to believe (erroneously) that one can subsist on great wealth alone. Often in negative constructions, as you can't eat gold and variants.In quot. 1599 with reference to the story of King Midas, who wished that everything he touched should turn to gold, and almost died of hunger as a consequence of this wish being granted (see the etymology at Midas n.). ΚΠ 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 39 That fable of Midas eating gold had no other shadow or inclusiue pith in it, but he was of a queasie stomacke. a1626 W. Rowley New Wonder (1632) i. 14 And he that gets Gold, let him eate Gold. 1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body iii. iv. 35 If wearing Pearls and Jewels, or eating Gold, as the old Saying is, can make thee happy, thou shalt be so. 1875 Myrtle 29 May 34/2 He couldn't eat gold, he couldn't drink it. Bright as it was, it couldn't show him the door, the feeblest rushlight could do that. 1918 J. Therese With Old Glory in Berlin viii. 94 He had..a wide circle of business friends who..supplied the ‘open sesame’ to many a secret door behind which was stored something far more precious than gold (you can't eat gold). 2017 Cairns Eye (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Jan. 11 As the Alaskans will tell you, ‘You can't eat gold.’ extracted from goldn.¹adj. < as lemmas
随便看	to have the big eye to have the black dog on one's back to have the black dog on one's shoulder to have the brass neck to to have the bulge on to have the call to have the call of the market to have the care of to have the cheek to have the cheek to do something to have the conscience to have the crappy end of the stick to have the defects of one's qualities to have the defects of one's virtues to have the dingbats to have the ear of a person to have the edge on to have the eminence of to have the etc end of the stick to have the face to have the face to do something to have the fairer to have the fairer of to have the field to oneself to have the foot of

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