stick-in-the-mud的词源
英文词源
- stick-in-the-mud (n.)
- 1852, from verbal phrase, stick (v.) on notion of "one who sticks in the mud," hence "one who is content to remain in an abject condition." The phrase appears in 1730, in city of London court records, as the alias of an accused named John Baker, who with two other men received a death sentence at the Old Bailey in December 1733 for "breaking open the House of Mr. Thomas Rayner, a Silversmith, and stealing thence Plate to a great Value."
中文词源
来自俚语义 stick,停留。字面意思即留在泥水里面不肯走的人，用以讽刺墨守成规的人。
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