broken reed

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something or someone very fragile or unreliable. idiomatic
    — Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

词形变化

broken reeds plural

词源

From broken + reed (with reference to the quotation in 1611, see below).
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