from the sweetest wine, the tartest vinegar
- from the sweetest wine, the tartest vinegar
1578 LYLY Euphues I. 197 As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinaigar, so the deepest loue tourneth to the deadliest hate.
1637 J. HOWELL Familiar Letters 3 Feb. (1903) II. 140 He swears he had rather see a basilisk than her [his former love]. The sweetest wines may turn to the tartest vinegar.
1852 E. FITZGERALD Polonius 9 ‘It is..the sweetest wine that makes the sharpest vinegar,’ says an old proverb.
1979 Daedalus Summer 121 The juxtaposition silently signals the cautionary maxim ‘From the sweetest wine, the tartest vinegar’.
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