| 词汇 | dead sea fruit |
| 词源 | Dead Sea fruit. In days past the apple of Sodom was thought to grow along the Dead Sea, the mythical fruit beautiful to be- hold but turning to ashes when touched. From this belief arose the expression Dead Sea fruit for something promising that turns out to be worthless, the phrase first recorded in 1868 as the title of a novel but probably older. |
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