词汇 | always be nice to people on your way up—you may meet them on your way down |
词源 | always be nice to people on your way up—you may meet them on your way down. Not comic Jimmy Durante but hu- morist Wilson Mizner invented this catchphrase coined in the 1920s, when Mizner served the Muse in Hollywood and in- vented dozens of well-known, usually caustic expressions. The phrase is now heard almost everywhere English is spoken. |
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