| 词汇 | it doesn’t go on all fours |
| 词源 | it doesn’t go on all fours. Unlike similar Madison Avenue expressions, this saying, meaning “something isn’t quite right,” goes back to the ancient Latin proverb Omnis comparatio clau- dicat, which literally means “every simile limps,” but which British historian Thomas Babington Macaulay translated as “No simile can go on all fours.” |
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