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Caroline Tran
2021-03-26 08:03
Nurture a serpent in (one's) bosom negative phrase
Cụm từ có thể được diễn đạt là "nurture a viper/snake in (one's) bosom".
To help, feed or take care of someone well but they turn out to be untrustworthy, deceitful, disloyal, or unthankful
I gave him everything but all I got was his betrayal. I nurtured a serpent in my bosom.
I didn't mind when they told me to be cautious when being friend with Stacy but this morning after realizing that I had lost my money, I knew that I nurtured a serpent in my bosom.
The verb "nurture" should be conjugated according to its tense.
The expression derived from Aesop's fable about a farmer who had taken care of a snake suffering from the cold but eventually got bitten when the snake recovered.
Do you see anything wrong?
1. An unlucky situation
2. An interjection used to express sympathy for someone's bad luck
1. I have had some tough beans recently. I got low marks and lost my bike just two days later.
2. A: I've got a low mark.
B: Tough bean, bro.
