| 词汇 | quicker than hell can scorch a feather |
| 词源 | quicker than hell can scorch a feather. Davy Crockett is giv- en credit for this Americanism, as well as for singing psalms to a dead horse, ripsnorter, sockdollager, and fine as silk. He did not of course coin a Crockett, for “a violent person,” or a sin to Davy Crockett, “anything extraordinary.” |
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