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µí, one nail knocks out another, according to the proverb.
1250Ancrene Wisse
(1962) 206
An neil driueth ut then other.
1555
Two Hundred Epigrams
no. 112
One nayle dryueth out an other.
1591
Two Gentlemen of Verona
II
. iv. 189
As one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten.
c
1645
Familiar Letters
17 Sept. (1903) III. 87
Languages and words .. may be said to stick in the memory like nails or pegs in a wainscot door, which used to thrust out one another oftentimes.
1852
Polonius
cxvii.
One nail drives out another.
1979
Satan Sampler
ix.
He needed a home with a woman in it. One nail drove out another.
change
ONE year's seeding makes seven years' weeding
On the danger of allowing weeds to grow and seed themselves: also used figuratively.
1866
Rural American
1 Dec. 354
It has been truly remarked that ‘one year's seeding may cost ten years' weeding.’
1873
Lancashire Legends
190
One year's seeding makes seven years' weeding.
1889
Folklore of Plants
xi.
A weed that runs to seed Is a seven years' weed .. implies that disagreeable actions .. only too frequently cling to man in after years.
1980
Daily Telegraph
19 Jan. 20
My advice to weed-persons is: do not let your weeds grow to maturity and seed—‘one year's seeding means seven years' weeding’.
action and consequence
;
garden lore
1866Rural American
1 Dec. 354
It has been truly remarked that ‘one year's seeding may cost ten years' weeding.’
1873
Lancashire Legends
190
One year's seeding makes seven years' weeding.
1889
Folklore of Plants
xi.
A weed that runs to seed Is a seven years' weed .. implies that disagreeable actions .. only too frequently cling to man in after years.
1980
Daily Telegraph
19 Jan. 20
My advice to weed-persons is: do not let your weeds grow to maturity and seed—‘one year's seeding means seven years' weeding’.
action and consequence;
garden lore
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