英语词汇all that glitters is not gold的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	all that glitters is not gold
词源	all that glitters is not gold. “Do not hold everything gold that shines like gold,” French theologian Alain de Lille wrote as far back as the 12th century. Since then Chaucer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare have all contributed variations on the saying. Its present form originated with English author John Dryden in his The Hind and the Panther (1687): “All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.”
随便看	when one door shuts another opens when the cat-s away the mice will play when the cocqcigrues come when the going gets tough the tough get going when the rubber hits the road when the shit hits the fan when the world grows honest when two people ride a horse one must ride behind when you call me that smile when you seek revenge dig two graves—one for your enemy one for yourself where have all the flowers gone where-s the beef where-s the fire where-s the rest of me where the hoot owl hollers at noon where there-s smoke there-s fire wherewithal whig whip city whip of god whippet whipping boy whirlybird whiskers whiskey

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