英语词汇don’t make two bites of a cherry的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	don’t make two bites of a cherry
词源	don’t make two bites of a cherry. The expression is an old one warning against dividing things too small to be divided, against prolonging for two days jobs that should take only one. It may have some connection with polite European courtiers three centuries ago who acted so daintily in public that they al- ways took two bites to eat a cherry.
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