词汇 | hammer |
词源 | hammer [OE] Old English hamor has a Germanic origin, related to German Hammer, and Old Norse hamarr ‘rock, crag’. The original sense was probably ‘stone tool or weapon’. The expression hammer and tongs [E18th] meaning ‘with energy and speed’ comes from the blacksmith showering blows on the iron taken by the help of tongs from the fire. |
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