good wine needs no bush

谚语

英文释义

谚语
  1. There is no need to boast or advertise about something of good quality.

词源

First recorded in the epilogue to As You Like It by William Shakespeare: "If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, ’tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue." Here, the term bush denotes a branch or bunch of ivy formerly hung as a vintner’s sign in front of a tavern.
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