| 词汇 | until the last dog is hung |
| 词源 | until the last dog is hung. This colorful Americanism was appropriately first recorded in an old-fashioned western, Stuart Edward White’s The Blazed Trail (1902), in which the hanged dogs referred to hanged men. Today the words are usually heard in reference to someone staying at a party, bar, event, etc., until the very last, as in “We were there until the last dog was hung. |
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