never trust me
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English
[edit]Phrase
[edit]- (UK, slang, obsolete) Used in oaths, suggesting that one should never be trusted again if what one says now is not true.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 227, column 2:
- Pet[ruchio]. Now for my life Hortentio feares his Widow.
Wid[ow]. Then neuer truſt me if I be affeard.
- 1888, Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-1654:
- Never trust me if I had not a suspicion from the first that 'twas that ill-looked fellow B— who made that story Mr. D— told you.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary