| 词汇 | bread or toast never falls but on its buttered side |
| 词源 | bread (or toast) never falls but on its buttered side. This be- moaning of bad luck may be a much older proverb, but the idea is immortalized in a 1884 poem by English author James Payn (1830–98), who wrote over 100 novels as well as a volume of poems and several nonfiction works: I had never had a piece of toast Particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, and always on the buttered side. |
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