英语词汇up in the paints的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	up in the paints
词源	up in the paints. “She is up in the paints as regards age,” Damon Runyon wrote in a short story. The expression means “high up.” I’ve been unable to find the origin of this phrase but guess it derives from the slang paints for playing cards, up in the paints referring to the higher valued cards in the deck.
随便看	there-s a sucker born every minute there-s many a slip twixt between cup and lip there-s no love lost between them there-s no there there there-s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos there-s nothing new under the sun there-s the rub there was a little girl there were giants in the earth in those days the rich are different from you and me the richest corpse in the graveyard thermos the rock thersitical the same dog bit me thesaurus the scene opens the schilder technique the screw plot the second city of the world the sensation is momentary and the position ridiculous the september night the settlement of the west the sheik the silent t you’re mar-got asquith aren’t you screen siren

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