英语词汇time is of the essence的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	time is of the essence
词源	time is of the essence. No eminent philosopher or statesman said this. It was originally a legal term, first recorded in 1873, applied to a contract where time was essential, indeed indis- pensable to that contract’s fulfillment. If, for example, the con- tract required a manufacturer to deliver goods within three months, he had to deliver them within that time or suffer the consequences.
随便看	the queen the quip modest the race is not to the swift the rat the cat and lovell the dog therblig there ain’t no horse that can’t be rode / there ain’t no man that can’t be throwed there are no atheists in foxholes there but for the grace of god goes god there but for the grace of god go i thereby hangs a tale the red one there-s a one-eyed man in the game there-s as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it there-s a sucker born every minute there-s many a slip twixt between cup and lip there-s no love lost between them there-s no there there there-s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos there-s nothing new under the sun there-s the rub there was a little girl there were giants in the earth in those days the rich are different from you and me the richest corpse in the graveyard thermos

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