fickle mistress

noun

Synonym of cruel mistress.

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cruel mistress
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Meanings

nounfickle mistress (plural fickle mistresses)

plural fickle mistresses

  1. idiomaticSynonym of cruel mistress.

    Be carefuls what you wish fors. The audience ams a fickles mistress. [sic]

    2012 May 27, Adult Swim, Metalocalypse, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Skwisgaar Skwigelf
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    Much as we may glory in [Nature's] crimson dawns and golden sunsets ... we learn sooner or later that she is a fickle mistress who may smile one day and another send fiery darts of anger flashing from the skies.

    1926, Central Conference of American Rabbis, A Set of Holiday Sermons

    Synonyms: cruel mistress

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of cruel mistress.

Similar
cruel mistress
Also see
cruel mistress

Origin

From fickle + mistress.

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