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A HUNGRY man is an angry man
c1641
Scottish Proverbs
(STS) no. 553
Hungry men ar angry.
1659
Proverbs
(English) 13
A hungry man, an angry man.
1738
Polite Conversation
II. 119
‘I'm hungry.’..‘And I'm angry, so let us both go fight.’
1909
Spectator
22 May 824
The Acharnians [in a play of that name by Aristophanes] .. made fun of the Athenians … ‘A hungry man is an angry man’.. and the Athenians were certainly hungry.
1922
Ulysses
161
Hungry man is an angry man.
1981
in
Times
17 Oct. 7
A hungry mob is an angry mob, a pot a cook but the food not enough.
hunger
HURRY no man's cattle
1822Pirate
I. ix.
‘A' in gude time,’ replied the jagger [pedlar]; ‘hurry no man's cattle.’
1907
English Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases
236
Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to have a donkey of your own. Sometimes said to an impatient child.
1932
Murder of Ninth Baronet
xxi.
I knew that in due time he would tell me the result of these mental exercises; in the meantime I stood by the old adage—hurry no man's cattle.
patience and impatiencehurt
The HUSBAND is always the last to know
Wife
is also used as well as
husband
.
1604
What you Will
I. i.
A cuckold .. a thing that's hoodwinked with kindness … He must be the last must know it.
1659
Proverbs
95
The good man is the last that knows whats amisse at home.
1756
Tristram Shandy
VIII. iv.
‘It is with love as with cuckoldom’—the suffering party is at least the third, but generally the last who knows anything about the matter.
1893
Many Inventions
250
The most disconnected witness knew .. the causes of offence; and the prisoner [i.e. the cuckolded husband], who naturally was the last of all to know, groaned in the dock while he listened.
1936
Gone with Wind
liv.
I thought surely the whole town knew by now. Perhaps they all do, except you. You know the old adage: ‘The wife is always the last one to find out.’
1959
Small Wilderness
i.
That over-worked truism about the wife being the last to know, wasn't in my case strictly accurate.
1979
Family Vault
iii.
‘Do you mean he hasn't heard?’ Leila whooped. ‘They say the husband's always the last to know,’ Harry chimed in.
deception
;
wives and husbands
is also used as well as
husband
.
1604What you Will
I. i.
A cuckold .. a thing that's hoodwinked with kindness … He must be the last must know it.
1659
Proverbs
95
The good man is the last that knows whats amisse at home.
1756
Tristram Shandy
VIII. iv.
‘It is with love as with cuckoldom’—the suffering party is at least the third, but generally the last who knows anything about the matter.
1893
Many Inventions
250
The most disconnected witness knew .. the causes of offence; and the prisoner [i.e. the cuckolded husband], who naturally was the last of all to know, groaned in the dock while he listened.
1936
Gone with Wind
liv.
I thought surely the whole town knew by now. Perhaps they all do, except you. You know the old adage: ‘The wife is always the last one to find out.’
1959
Small Wilderness
i.
That over-worked truism about the wife being the last to know, wasn't in my case strictly accurate.
1979
Family Vault
iii.
‘Do you mean he hasn't heard?’ Leila whooped. ‘They say the husband's always the last to know,’ Harry chimed in.
deception;
wives and husbands
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