英语词汇kentucky right turn的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	kentucky right turn
词源	Kentucky right turn. According to William Safire’s “On Language” column in the New York Times (January 27, 1991), this is a humorous term meaning “the maneuver performed when a driver, about to turn right, first swings to the left.”
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