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The QUARREL of lovers is the renewal of loveCf. TERENCE Andria 1. 555 amantium irae amoris integratiost, lovers’ quarrels are a
strengthening of love.
c 1520 Terence in English C1 The angers of louers renew love agayn. 1576 R.
EDWARDES Paradise of Dainty Devises 42 Now haue I founde, the prouerbe true to
proue, The fallyng out of faithfull frends, is the renuyng of love. 1624 BURTON Anatomy
of Melancholy (ed. 2) III. ii. She would.. picke quarrells vpon no occasion, because she
would be reconciled to him againe. .. The falling out of lovers is the renuing of loue. 1754
RICHARDSON Grandison III. xviii. The falling out of Lovers.. is the renewal of Love.
Are we not now better friends than if we had never differed? 1874 TROLLOPE Phineas
Redux II. xxix. She knew that ‘the quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love’. At any rate,
the woman always desires that it may be so, and endeavours to reconcile the parted ones.
1905 Graphic (Christmas) 14 (caption) The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. 1980
M. GILBERT Death of Favourite Girl ii. Bear in mind, ladies, that a lovers’ quarrel
sometimes signifies the rebirth of love. lovequarrel see also (noun) it takes TWO to make a quarrel; (verb) a BAD workman blames
his tools.
You cannot get a QUART into a pint potA quart is an imperial measure of two pints. The metaphorical phrase to get (or put) a
quart into a pint pot is also used.
1896 Daily News 23 July 4 They had been too ambitious. They had attempted what
he might describe in homely phrase as putting a quart into a pint pot. 1934 C. F. GREGG
Execution of Diamond Deutsch xi. He whistled thoughtfully. ‘You can’t get a quart into a
pint pot—is that it?’ asked the South African officer, quick to see the reason. 1948 P. M.
WARNER Embroidery Mary xi. When they.. got down to.. packing it was found to be a
case of’quarts into pint pots will not go.’ 1974 W. FOLEY Child in Forest I. 101 A quart
may not go into a pint pot, but my feet had to go into those boots. great and small;
possibility and impossibility