英语词汇dear john letter的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	dear john letter
词源	Dear John letter. No one has identified the original jilted John, if there was one, but this term for a letter to a soldier say- ing that his wife or sweetheart is leaving him for another dates back to World War II. It is often abbreviated to a Dear John and can be used for a similar letter to any man distant from the woman writing it. See that’s all she wrote.
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