phrase to all three of them: every professional criminal they’d known would sell his
sidekick unhesitatingly if the price were right. 2002 R. J. BERNSTEIN Radical Evil 25
And a moral scoundrel may occasionally do what duty requires (honor among thieves).
honour; wrong-doersThe post of HONOUR is the post of dangera 1533 LD. BERNERS Huon (EETS) xx. Where as lyeth grete parelles there lieth
grete honour. 1613 T. HEYWOOD Brazen Age III. 211 The greater dangers threaten The
greater is his honour that breaks through. a 1625 J. FLETCHER Rule Wife (1640) iv. i. I
remembered your old Roman axiom, The more the danger, still the more the honour.
1711 Spectator 1 Dec. 1 We consider Human Life as a State of Probation, and Adversity
as the Post of Honour in it. 1832 A. HENDERSON Scottish Proverbs 33 The post of
honour is the post of danger. 1905 British Weekly 14 Dec. 1 The Chancellorship of the
Exchequer .. is preeminently the post of danger, and therefore the post of honour in the
new Government. honour; perilhonour see also give CREDIT where credit is due; a PROPHET is not without honour save
in his own country.
hoof see NO foot, no horse.hop see TURKEY, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year.HOPE deferred makes the heart sickWith allusion to PROVERBS xiii., 12 (AV) Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; cf. c
1395 WYCLIF Bible (1850) Proverbs xiii. 13 Hope that is deferrid, tormenteth the soule; c
1527 J. RASTELL Calisto & Melebea A5V For long hope to the hart mych troble wyll do.
1557 R. EDGEWORTH Sermons 130 V The hope that is deferred, prolonged, and put
of, vexeth the minde. 1733 J. TALCOTT in Collections of Connecticut Hist. Society
(1892) IV. 285 As hope deferred makes the heart sick: so I am in long expectation of your
answers. 1889 GISSING Nether World II. vii. There was a heaviness at his heart. Perhaps
it came only of hope deferred. 1981 Observer 26 Apr. 14 If hope deferred makes the heart
sick, despair is a poor counsellor also. hope and despair