词汇 | he’d steal the butter off a blind man-s bread and put him on the wrong road home |
词源 | he’d steal the butter off a blind man’s bread, and put him on the wrong road home. Said of a no-good person, someone with no scruples at all; quoted in Frank O’Rourke’s Last Ride (1958). |
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