词汇 | murder will out |
词源 | murder will out. “Mordre wol out, that see we day by day,” Chaucer wrote in “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.” Before this we find a similar phrase, Murder cannot be hid, used with the same meaning: Your sins will find you out, your sinful secret will be revealed. |
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