Do you bite your thumb at us sir meaning11/14/2022 ![]() What I said was not to lay a law upon me, but only a bare promise, that I would bite my tongue, whenever I censured anything and now-a-days such things are not so strictly observed as formerly for today a law is made, and tomorrow it is broken, because perhaps it suits not with our conveniency to keep it and in on moment we promise to amend our faults, and the next fall into greater it is one thing to commend good laws and regulations, and another to submit ourselves to them in a word, saying and doing are two things let the devil bite himself if he will, for me, for I am not such a fool as to bite my own self, nor practice things upon a mat, where there is no one sees me, who may applaud my heroic actions. I beg your Pardon, answer'd Montefinos, Signior Don Quixote, I might have guess'd indeed that you were the Lady Dulcinea's Knight, and therefore I ought to have bit my Tongue off, sooner than to have compared her to any thing lower than Heaven it self.Īnd from a 1767 translation of A Dialogue Between Scipio and Bergansa:īergansa. From a 1719 translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote: Cervantes uses it several times in Don Quixote and in his [A Dialogue Between Scipio and Bergansa, Two Dogs belonging to the City of Toledo*. Pirates may make cheap penn'worths of their pillage,/ And purchase friends, and give to curtezans,/ Still reveling, like lords, till all be gone:/ While as the silly owner of the goods? Weeps over them, and wrings his hapless hands,/ And shakes his head, and trembling stands aloof,/ While all is shar'd, and all is borne away / Ready to starve, and dares not touch his own./ So York must sit, and fret, and bite his tongue,/ While his own lands are bargain'd for, and sold.īiting one's tongue to stifle the urge to speak also seems to have a long history in Spanish.
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