A PHRASE THAT HAS ALTERED IN MEANING
The phrase, “There is no love lost between them,” is an everyday one, yet it once bore a meaning precisely the opposite of its present' one. In the old chapbook rhyme upon “The most Lamentable and Deplorable History of the Two Children in the Wood.” etc., published in 1700, the death of the children’s parents is described in these lines:— His wife by him as sick did lye, and both possessed one grave, No love between these two was lost, each was to other kind; In love they liv’d, in love the dy’d, and left two Babes behind. Surely this old meaning of the words is the better one. The original stock of love with which every marriage should begin is taken for granted. Then none was "lost.” There was no leakage on either side.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 May 1934, Page 7
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142A PHRASE THAT HAS ALTERED IN MEANING Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 May 1934, Page 7
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