英语词汇always be nice to people on your way up—you may meet them on your way down的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

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.
随便看	wet one-s beak wet one-s whistle wet ship wetting a commission wet your whistle we who are about to die salute you we wuz robbed whalemen-s chapel whaling wham bam thank-ye-ma’am what am i chopped liver what a revoltin’ development this is what are you a man or a mouse what a way to run a railroad what can’t be cured must be endured what cato did and addison approved cannot be wrong whatchamacallit whatcheer what doesn’t kill me him makes me him stronger what do you know about that what every schoolboy knows what fools these mortals be what goes around comes around what goes up must come down what hath god wrought

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