英语词汇crazy as a loon的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	crazy as a loon
词源	crazy as a loon; loony. The common loon (Gavia immer) is noted for what one expert calls its “mirthless laughter, a high, far-crying, liquid tremolo that sets your spine atingle.” This water bird’s name may come from the Dutch loen. The loon has noth- ing to do with the word loony, for “crazy,” which is a shortening of lunatic, but it does give us the expression crazy as a loon.
随便看	no-tel motel not for love or money nothing in excess nothing is certain but death and taxes nothing like it to keep your ears pink nothing on the ball nothing to fear but fear itself no tickee no washee not in the same league with not just another pretty face notre pierre not right not so hot not the only pebble on the beach not to be sneezed at not to care a straw not to get the bat off one-s shoulder not to know beans not to know beef from bulls’ foot not to know if one is coming or going not to know one-s ass from one-s elbow not tonight josephine not to turn a hair not to worry not what it-s cracked up to be

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