英语词汇knock galley west的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	knock galley west
词源	knock galley west. No one has been able to explain why a ship’s galley or the compass point west have anything to do with this expression meaning “to knock into smithereens.” They may not. The words may be a corruption of the English dialect term collyweston, which in turn derived from the town of Colly Weston in Northamptonshire, a town reportedly given to excessive violence. Colly Weston itself may have been named for a local, violent troublemaker named Colly Weston. All speculative maybes once again.
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