kill with kindness

以毒攻毒善意的杀戮以牙还牙

kill with kindness 的定义

  1. Overwhelm or harm someone with mistaken or excessive benevolence. For example, Aunt Mary constantly sends Jane chocolates and cake and other goodies, even though she's been told Jane's on a diet—nothing like killing with kindness. This expression originated as kill with kindness as fond apes do their young and was a proverb by the mid-1500s.

kill with kindness 近义词

kill with kindness

等同于 spoil

更多kill with kindness例句

  1. Without it, they say, the disease would surely kill her within two years.
  2. That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.
  3. Even a relatively small 250-pound bomb could kill or injure friendly troops who are within 650 feet of the explosion.
  4. What responsibility was taken by cops when they kill unjustly?
  5. By the way, I saw Good Kill at Venice and really enjoyed it.
  6. Am I not in France—gay, delightful France—partaking of the kindness and civility of the country?
  7. It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
  8. He could not bear to open his dreadful situation to his Uncle David, nor to kill himself, nor to defy the vengeance of Longcluse.
  9. At last his anxiety reached a point where he was positive that if he received an adverse decision, it would surely kill him.
  10. She was delighted by your brilliant talk and sense of humour, but still more delighted by your cordiality and kindness.