单词 | you can't make bricks without straw |
释义 | you can't make bricks without straw proverb Nothing can be made or accomplished without proper or adequate material or information.It's no good trying to build a website if you don't know any html, you can't make bricks without straw....
With biblical allusion to Exod. 5; ‘without straw’ meant ‘without having straw provided’ (i.e. the Israelites were required to gather the straw for themselves). A misinterpretation has led to the current sense See parent entry: brick |
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