英语词汇all quiet on the potomac的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

all quiet on the Potomac. Sylva Clapin explained this phrase in A New Dictionary of Americanisms (1902): “A phrase now become famous and used in jest or ironically as indicative of a period of undisturbed rest, quiet enjoyment, or peaceful pos- session. It originated with Mr. [Simon] Cameron, Secretary of War during the Rebellion [Civil War], who made such a fre- quent use of it, in his war collections, that it became at last ste- reotyped on the nation’s mind.” E.L. Beers published a poem in Harper’s Weekly (Nov. 30, 1861) extending the expression: “ ‘All quiet along the Potomac,’ they say, / ‘Except now and then, a stray picket / is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro./ By a ri- fleman hid in the thicket.’ ” General George McClellan is also said to have invented the phrase. See all quiet on the western front.

词汇	all quiet on the potomac
词源	all quiet on the Potomac. Sylva Clapin explained this phrase in A New Dictionary of Americanisms (1902): “A phrase now become famous and used in jest or ironically as indicative of a period of undisturbed rest, quiet enjoyment, or peaceful pos- session. It originated with Mr. [Simon] Cameron, Secretary of War during the Rebellion [Civil War], who made such a fre- quent use of it, in his war collections, that it became at last ste- reotyped on the nation’s mind.” E.L. Beers published a poem in Harper’s Weekly (Nov. 30, 1861) extending the expression: “ ‘All quiet along the Potomac,’ they say, / ‘Except now and then, a stray picket / is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro./ By a ri- fleman hid in the thicket.’ ” General George McClellan is also said to have invented the phrase. See all quiet on the western front.
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