hunger drives the wolf out of the wood
- hunger drives the wolf out of the wood
Cf. early 14th-cent. Fr. la fains enchace le loufdou bois, hunger chases the wolf from the wood.
1483 CAXTON Cato B6v As hunger chaceth the wolfe out of the wode thus sobrete [sobriety] chaseth the deuyl fro the man.
1591 J. FLORIO Second Fruits 125 Hunger driues the wolfe out of the wood, if I had not great neede of monie, you should neuer haue them so dog cheape.
1748 SMOLLETT Gil Blas (1749) IV. XII. vii. This one..I own is the child of necessity. Hunger, thou knowest, brings the wolf out of the wood.
1872 R. BROWNING Works (1897) III. 323 Hunger, proverbs say, allures the wolf from the wood.
1905 J. B. CABELL Line of Love iv. Hunger..causes the wolf to sally from the wood.
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