folly, compulsory, rod, make a rod for one's own back

Proverbs 26:3-5 NKJV - A whip for the horse, A bridle for the ...

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A whip for the horse, A bridle for the donkey, And a rod for the fool's back. Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like.

鞭子是為打馬，轡頭是為勒驢，刑杖是為打愚昧人的背。」(箴言二十六：3)

(Lincoln appointed a New York senator, William Seward, as his secretary of state. He promptly bought Alaska, known as “Seward’s Folly,” which ended up bringing us the folly of Sarah Palin).

The Measles Vaccine Follies

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folly (STUPIDITY) Show phonetics
noun [C or U] FORMAL
stupidity, or a stupid action, idea, etc:
She said that the idea was folly.
[+ to infinitive] It would be folly for the country to become involved in the war.
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最近為某工程協會審查翻譯，赫然發現「必要性經驗」一詞，查英文乃是COMPULSARY EXPERIENCE，趕快把「性」字通通取消。

compulsion (FORCE) Show phonetics
noun [S or U]
a force that makes you do something:
He seems to be driven by some kind of inner compulsion.
[+ to infinitive] We were under no compulsion to attend.
Don't feel under any compulsion to take me with you.
See also compel.

compulsory Show phonetics
adjective
If something is compulsory, you must do it because of a rule or law:
Swimming was compulsory at my school.
Wearing seat belts in cars is compulsory by law.

compulsorily Show phonetics
adverb
Patients can now be compulsorily detained in hospital only under tightly drawn criteria.

rod 

Pronunciation: /rɒd/ 

NOUN

1A thin straight bar, especially of wood or metal:concrete walls reinforced with steel rodsa curtain rod

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1.1A wand or staff as a symbol of office, authority, or power:the royal insignia included the ring, the sceptre, and the rod

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1.2A slender straight stick or shoot growing on or cut from a tree or bush:the roof is formed of willow and hazel rods woven between willow rafters

1.3A stick used for caning or flogging:he swung the rod again in a threatening arc

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1.4(the rod) The use of a stick as punishment:if you’d been my daughter, you’d have felt the rod

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1.5vulgar slang A man’s penis.

2A fishing rod:he hooked an enormous fish which almost pulled the rod from out of his handsthe largest carp ever caught on rod and line in Britain

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2.1An angler:over a hundred rods turned out for the day, including some famous names

3historical, chiefly British another term for perch³ (sense 1).

3.1(also square rod)another term for perch³ (sense 2).

4US informal A pistol or revolver.

5Anatomy A light-sensitive cell of one of the two types present in large numbers in the retina of the eye, responsible mainly for monochrome vision in poor light. Compare withcone (sense 3 of the noun).

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Phrases

1

kiss the rod

see kiss.

2

make a rod for one's own back

Do something likely to cause difficulties for oneself later.

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