The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (540 page)
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From the SWEETEST wine, the tartest vinegar
1578Euphues
I. 197
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinaigar, so the deepest loue tourneth to the deadliest hate.
1637
Familiar Letters
3 Feb. (1903) II. 140
He swears he had rather see a basilisk than her [his former love]. The sweetest wines may turn to the tartest vinegar.
1852
Polonius
9
‘It is .. the sweetest wine that makes the sharpest vinegar,’ says an old proverb.
1979
Daedalus Summer
121
The juxtaposition silently signals the cautionary maxim ‘From the sweetest wine, the tartest vinegar.’
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