English Dictionary

all cats are grey in the dark

ことわざ

イギリス英語 攻撃的 時々 卑語 稀用

(UK, sometimes vulgar and offensive) Sex is enjoyable regardless of the physical attractiveness or social station of one's partner.

日本語の意味

（英国で時に下品・侮辱的な意味合いで使用）相手の容姿や社会的地位に関係なく、性行為自体の快楽が享受できるという意味

As the old proverb goes, all cats are grey in the dark, so he didn't mind her appearance.

古いことわざにあるように、相手の容姿や社会的地位に関係なく性行為は楽しめるので、彼は彼女の見た目を気にしなかった。

意味（1）

(UK, sometimes vulgar and offensive) Sex is enjoyable regardless of the physical attractiveness or social station of one's partner.

[Of a widow:] And to make carnall appetite content, To take lacke of beautie but as an eye ſore. The fayre and the foule, by darke are lyke ſtore. When all candels be out, all cats be grey, All thingis are then of one colour, as who ſey. And this prouerbe ſaith, for quenching hot deſyre, Foule water as ſoone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre.

意味（2）

(uncommon) Under some circumstances, individual distinctions no longer matter.

In such a darkness, in which all cats are grey, Lucrezia Borgia might well seem as white as a blue-eyed Persian. But the paradox remains that Corvo might not impossibly be right. As, but for superhuman strainings, Dreyfus might have gone down to history as a traitor to France, so may the Borgian Lucrezia have been as blameless as the Tarquinian to whom indeed Ariosto boldly compares her. The woman who protected the Jews during a famine, provided poor girls with dowries, passed evenings over her embroidery frame and held the esteem of the greatest poet and the greatest stylist of her day, may really have lived up to that washing list.