英语词汇clean的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	clean
词源	clean [OE] Clean is of West Germanic origin and related to German klein. To make a clean breast of it [M18th] is to confess all of your mistakes or wrongdoings. People used to think that the breast, or chest, was where a person’s conscience was located. In the proverb cleanliness is next to godliness [L18th], ‘next’ means ‘immediately following’. The saying is quoted by John Wesley in one of his sermons, on the subject of dress: ‘Slovenliness is no part of religion…Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness’ (1791).
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