| 词汇 | he gets the nut who has no teeth |
| 词源 | he gets the nut who has no teeth. A proverbial phrase coined by the Moorish scholar and author Al-Hadram (c. 1000). Al- Hadram found himself outbid for a rare book he needed by an old rich bidder who explained that he only wanted the volume because it was the exact size he needed to fit a vacant niche in his library. “I was so vexed,” Al-Hadram recalled later, “that I could not help saying to him, ‘He gets the nut who has no teeth.’ ” |
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