英语词汇keep your eyes peeled的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	keep your eyes peeled
词源	keep your eyes peeled. To keep your eyes peeled for some- thing is to keep them wide open, to keep a sharp lookout. The earliest known form of the frontier expression, recorded in 1833, was to keep your eyes skinned (presumably meaning with the lids drawn back): “I wish I may be shot if I don’t think you had better keep your eyes skinned so that you can look power- ful sharp . . .”
随便看	best of all possible worlds best-seller betel nut bet one-s bottom dollar better a hash at home than a roast with strangers better half better late than never better mousetrap better to give than to receive betty between a rock and a hard place between grass and hay between scylla and charybdis between the cup and the lip there-s many a slip between the devil and the deep blue sea between the lines between wind and water between you me and the bedpost between you me and the lamppost beulah land bevinism beware of and eschew pompous prolixity beware of dog beware of greeks bearing gifts beware the ides of march

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