英语词汇couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn
词源	couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. Said of someone with very bad aim, usually with a gun. The expression, and varia- tions on it, dates from the early 1900s.
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