many go out for wool and come home shorn
- many go out for wool and come home shorn
Many seek to better themselves or make themselves rich, but end by losing what they already have.
1599 J. MINSHEU Dialogues in Spanish 61 You will goe for wooll, and returne home shorne.
1612 T. SHELTON tr. Cervantes’ Don Quixote I. vii. To wander through the world..without once considering how many there goe to seeke for wooll, that returne againe shorne themselues.
1678 J. RAY English Proverbs (ed. 2) 220 Many go out for wooll and come home shorn.
1858 S. A. HAMMETT Piney Woods Tavern xxiii. There’s a proverb about going out after wool, and coming home shorn.
1910 G. W. E. RUSSELL Sketches & Snapshots 315 Some go [to Ascot] intent on repairing the ravages of Epsom or Newmarket; and in this speculative section not a few..who go for wool come away shorn.
1981 N. FREELING One Damn Thing after Another iii. One always comes back tired from holidays. ‘Go for wool and come back—?’ ‘Shaved—no, cropped.’ ‘Sheared. Yes.’
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