英语词汇look one way and row another的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	look one way and row another
词源	look one way and row another. Look one way and row an- other means “to be aimed at one thing, but in reality to be seek- ing or striving for something quite different,” like an oarsman rowing a boat toward land while his eyes are fixed on the open sea. The expression is a well-known one that John Bunyan used or coined in The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678), a work which has been translated into over 100 languages.
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