| 词汇 | up green river |
| 词源 | up Green River. When American mountain men killed a man a century ago they sent him up Green River, this referring not directly to Wyoming’s Green River but to the common Green River knives used in many a fight. They were called that because they were made at the Green River works and stamped with that designation. |
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