英语词汇rope of sand的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	rope of sand
词源	rope of sand. Expressing futility, ties that neither bind nor hold, rope of sand is an old English expression that is first re- corded in 1624, but may well be proverbial. One early use: “. . . this rope of sand which Tradition is.”
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