词汇 | bite the hand that feeds one |
词源 | bite the hand that feeds one. To turn against a benefactor. British statesman and author Edmund Burke is said to be the first to record this phrase figuratively, in a 1770 speech. It obvi- ously suggests a dog that might bite its owner’s hand. |
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