martyr see the BLOOD of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.mass see MEAT and mass never hindered man.Like MASTER, like manMan here is in the sense of ‘servant’. The female equivalent is like mistress like maid. Cf.
PETRONIUS Satyricon lviii. qualis dominus, talis et servus, as is the master, so is the servant;
early 14th-cent. Fr. lon dit a tel seigneur tel varlet, it is said, for such a lord such a
manservant.
1530 J. PALSGRAVE L’éclaircissement de la Langue Française 120 V Suche
maystre suche man. 1538 T. ELYOT Dict. s.v. Similes, A lewde [foolish] servaunt with
an yll master. .. Lyke master lyke man. 1620 T. SHELTON tr. Cervantes’ Don Quixote
II.X. The Prouerbe be true that sayes, ‘like master, like man’, and I may add, ‘like lady,
like maid’. Lady Hercules was fine, but her maid was still finer. 1979 M. G. EBERHART
Bayou Road iv. ‘Like master, like man,’ Marcy’s father had said bitterly .. of the
disappearance of an entire set of Dresden plates. 1990 ‘C. AIRD’ Body Politic (1991) xii.
131 ‘I’m sorry,’ said Miss Finch, ‘but she just doesn’t like men.’ Like mistress, like
maid, was what Sloan’s grandmother would have said to that, but Sloan himself, wise in
his own generation, kept silent. employers and employeesmaster see also the EYE of a master does more work than both his hands; FIRE is a good
servant but a bad master; JACK is as good as his master; JACK of all trades and master of
none; NO man can serve two masters.
What MATTERS is what works1998 Department of Transport, Environment, and the Regions Modernising Local
Government: Improving Local Services through Best Value ii. 9 There is no reason why
services should be delivered directly if other more efficient means are available. What
matters is what works. 2001 Spectator 3 Nov. 22 Given that the unions had all bought into
‘what matters is what works’, it struck me as confrontational. efficiency and
inefficiencyMAY chickens come cheeping