英语词汇pull a fast one的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	pull a fast one
词源	pull a fast one. Pull has been slang for “to engineer a decep- tion” for well over a century, but the expression pull a fast one, “to put over a trick or clever swindle,” goes back to only about 1938. Baseball seems the obvious source—a pitcher coming in hard with a fast ball after throwing a lot of “junk.” But the nod has to go to “fast-bowling at cricket,” since the expression is first recorded in England. See cricket.
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