| 词汇 | bad workmen blame their tools |
| 释义 | (redirected from bad workmen blame their tools)a bad workman blames his toolsIf someone performs a job or task poorly or unsuccessfully, they will usually lay the blame on the quality of their equipment, or other such external factors, rather than take responsibility for their own failure. When Mary blamed the oven for burning the turkey on Thanksgiving, her husband jokingly replied, "a bad workman always blames his tools." a bad workman blames his toolsPeople say a bad workman blames his tools when someone says that something they have done is not of good quality because they did not have the correct things to do it with, to mean that it is really because they did not have enough skill. Complaining about the poor script, he added: `But they say a bad workman blames his tools.' a bad workman blames his toolssomeone who has done something badly will seek to lay the blame on the equipment rather than admit to their own lack of skill. proverbA similar 13th-century French proverb observed mauveés ovriers ne trovera ja bon hostill , ‘bad workmen will never find a good tool’, and variants of this early saying can be found in English until the mid 19th century until the emergence of the modern version. |
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