英语词汇all the tea in china的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	all the tea in china
词源	all the tea in China. All the tea in China would be nearly 600,000 tons, according to the 1985 estimates of the United States Department of Agriculture. It may be an Americanism, but this expression denoting a great sum probably is of British origin and over a century old; the trouble is that no one has been able to authoritatively pin it down.
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