单词 | easier said than done |
释义 | easier said than doneSEE SYNONYMS FOR easier said than done ON THESAURUS.COM Also, more easily said than done. Describing something more readily talked about than accomplished, as in Keeping the cats off the sofa is easier said than done. This expression also was put as sooner or better said than done. Today, the variant (more easily) is still heard less often than the original. [c. 1450] Words nearby easier said than doneeaseful, easel, easement, ease off, ease out, easier said than done, easily, easiness, Easley, east, East Africa The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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