英语词汇knew him when的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	knew him when
词源	knew him when. American poet and journalist Arthur Guiterman (1871–1943) popularized this expression, mean- ing “I knew him before he became rich or prominent,” in a parody he wrote of Whittier’s lines (in Maud Muller) “of all sad words of tongue or pen,/ The saddest are these: ‘It might have been.’ ” Wrote Guiterman, in A Poet’s Proverbs (1924): “Of all cold words of tongue or pen,/ The worst are these, ‘I knew him when.’ ”
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