英语词汇a little pot is soon hot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	a little pot is soon hot
词源	a little pot is soon hot. Said of a small person quick to lose his temper or to become passionate. It is a rhyming British proverb dating back to the mid-16th century and the little in it can mean small in mind as well as size. Shakespeare used it in The Taming of the Shrew.
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