英语词汇cut a wide big swath的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cut a wide big swath
词源	cut a wide (big) swath. This Americanism, meaning “to make a big pompous show, to appear important,” dates back to the early 19th century or before. “Gracious me! How he was strutting up the sidewalk—didn’t he cut a swath!” exclaimed one writer in 1843. The term is a farming one, a swath being “the amount of grass or any crop cut down with one sweep of a scythe.”
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