英语词汇could talk a cat down out of a tree的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	could talk a cat down out of a tree
词源	could talk a cat down out of a tree. Very persuasive, loqua- cious. “At any rate, she could talk a cat down out of a tree.”
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