God sends meat, but the devil sends cooks
- God sends meat, but the devil sends cooks
1542 A. BORDE Dietary of Health xi. It is a common prouerbe, God may sende a man good meate, but the deuyll may sende an euyll coke to dystrue it.
c 1607 T. DELONEY Thomas of Reading B3 God sends meat, and the diuel sends cookes.
1738 SWIFT Polite Conversation ii. 155 This Goose is quite raw: Well, God sends Meat, but the Devil sends Cooks.
1822 SCOTT Nigel III. iii. That homely proverb that men taunt my calling with,—‘God sends good meat, but the devil sends cooks.’
1979 Country Life 13 Sept. 807 Another old saying..that God sends good meat but the devil sends the cooks.
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