big fish eat little fish

big fish eat little fish

a 1200 Old English Homilies (EETS) 2nd ser. 179 The more [bigger] fishes in the se eten the lasse [smaller].

c 1300 in J. Small English Metrical Homilies (1862) 136 Al this werld es bot a se,..And gret fisches etes the smale. For riche men of this werd [world] etes, That pouer [the poor] wit thair travail getes.

1608 SHAKESPEARE Pericles II. i. 27 Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.—Why, as men do a-land—the great ones eat up the little ones.

1979 New Society 6 Dec. 557 The state today..seems like nothing so much [as] a huge aquarium... Big fish eat little fish, and the great fish eat the big.


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