throw dirt enough, and some will stick

谚语

英文释义

谚语
  1. If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.
    — 1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at https://web.archive.org/web/20060903061313/http://wesley.nnu.edu/john_wesley/letters/1766.htm on 14 Oct 06. I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'

词源

This proverb dates from c1650, and was popularised by Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] in the 18th century.
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