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==Wiktionary EN== | |||
An allusion to the return of migrating swallows at the start of the summer season. | |||
Calque of Ancient Greek μία χελιδὼν ἔαρ οὐ ποιεῖ (mía khelidṑn éar ou poieî), a remark found in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (1098a18: “one swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy”), itself inspired by the fable The Young Man and the Swallow by Aesop. | |||
The unusual English word order (in use from c. 1920) may be influenced by the line “Stone walls do not a prison make,” from To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace (1642). | |||