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工作学习 / 外语学习 / 请问英语中有没有类似"拆东墙补西墙"之类的SLANG?
-hbnm(河北农民);
2008-1-20
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Rob Peter to pay PaulRob Peter to pay Paul
Take from one to give to another, shift resources. For example, They took out a second mortgage on their house so they could buy a condo in Florida--they're robbing Peter to pay Paul. Although legend has it that this expression alludes to appropriating the estates of St. Peter's Church, in Westminster, London, to pay for the repairs of St. Paul's Cathedral in the 1800s, the saying first appeared in a work by John Wycliffe about 1382.
-buickregal(2008FocusOnTheTarget);
2008-1-20
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