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I told him that’s just robbing Peter to pay Paul.” “Using credit cards to pay off a loan is like robbing Peter to pay Paul.” Origin. Although this idiom certainly refers to the Biblical apostles Peter and Paul, it is not from the Bible. The earliest known example of its use is from John Wycliffe’s Select English Works (1380):
Origin of Robbing Peter to Pay Paul. This expression has existed since at least the 1300s. Its exact origin is unclear, but we do have some early sources for it. The names involved appear to be biblical references. Both Peter and Paul were disciples of Jesus in the New Testament. One of the first uses of the phrase was in 1340 by John Wycliffe:
The idiom “robbing Peter to pay Paul” goes back to the 17th century and is said to have religious origins. There’s a popular theory that it refers to the cost incurred in renovating St. Peter’s church in Rome while neglecting the much-needed repairs of St. Paul’s in London. So, metaphorically, they were robbing one church’s funds to ...
28. Mai 2024 · rob Peter to pay Paul. phrase. If you say that someone is robbing Peter to pay Paul, you mean that they are transferring money from one group of people or place to another, rather than providing extra money. [disapproval] Sometimes he was moving money from one account to another, robbing Peter to pay Paul. See full dictionary entry for Peter.
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The first known appearance of the elemental sense of the proverb "robbing Peter to pay Paul", is from the Science of Cirurgie of Lanfranc of Milan, composed in 1296. In the 1894 Early English Text Society publication of Lanfranc's work, edited by Robert V. Fleischhacker , that appearance is represented as shown here:
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