英语词汇quick as or before you can say jack robinson的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

quick as (or before) you can say Jack Robinson. Jackie Rob- inson, the major leagues’ first black player, was one of the quickest base runners in baseball history, but he has nothing to do with the old expression as quick as you can say Jack Robin- son. The phrase goes back to 18th-century England, where there may have been, as Francis Grose suggested in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1795), a certain Jack Robinson who was in the habit of paying extraordinarily quick visits to his friends—and leaving even before his name could be an- nounced by the butler. Jack Robinson was much more likely used in the phrase because it is easy to pronounce and is a very common name in England.

词汇	quick as or before you can say jack robinson
词源	quick as (or before) you can say Jack Robinson. Jackie Rob- inson, the major leagues’ first black player, was one of the quickest base runners in baseball history, but he has nothing to do with the old expression as quick as you can say Jack Robin- son. The phrase goes back to 18th-century England, where there may have been, as Francis Grose suggested in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1795), a certain Jack Robinson who was in the habit of paying extraordinarily quick visits to his friends—and leaving even before his name could be an- nounced by the butler. Jack Robinson was much more likely used in the phrase because it is easy to pronounce and is a very common name in England.
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