rope of sand

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something incohesive, flimsy, disconnected or unreliable idiomatic
    — If any flaw can be detected in this reasoning, its author will be the first to admit that these Institutes are, from beginning to end, a mere rope of sand; but if no flaw can be detected in it, he begs to crave for them the acknowledgment that they are a chain of adamant.

词形变化

ropes of sand plural
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