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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....
  • The law of value will still be there reminding us that, even under socialism, you can't make bricks without straw.
  • You can't make bricks without straw and you can't portray a character just by making him up from within yourself.
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
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