springes to catch woodcocks

Traps to ensnare fools. (The woodcock was once regarded as synonymous with foolishness or stupidity.) The phrase was perhaps most famously used in Shakespeare's Hamlet. I know you're desperate to have a boyfriend, but you're just laying springes to catch woodcocks right now by spending so much time at dive bars. You won't find the right man that way!

词组	springes to catch woodcocks
释义	springes to catch woodcocks springes to catch woodcocks Traps to ensnare fools. (The woodcock was once regarded as synonymous with foolishness or stupidity.) The phrase was perhaps most famously used in Shakespeare's Hamlet. I know you're desperate to have a boyfriend, but you're just laying springes to catch woodcocks right now by spending so much time at dive bars. You won't find the right man that way! See also: catch Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: in the (grand) scheme of things in the great scheme of things in the scheme of things damn right build up to build up to (something) stand on (one's)/its own Mr Right So what if I do? hold it together
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