英语词汇know one-s onions的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

know one’s onions. Onions aren’t widely known by variety, though the Vidalia and Hawaiian varieties are among several that are well known. Therefore, to speak of someone “who knows his apples,” a later variant on the above phrase, would be more appropriate, as there are hundreds of apple varieties. Know one’s onions was first recorded in 1922 and means to be astute in one’s field. An old joke has the esteemed lexicographer C. T. Onions, a longtime editor of the Oxford English Diction- ary, as the eponym behind the phrase.

词汇	know one-s onions
词源	know one’s onions. Onions aren’t widely known by variety, though the Vidalia and Hawaiian varieties are among several that are well known. Therefore, to speak of someone “who knows his apples,” a later variant on the above phrase, would be more appropriate, as there are hundreds of apple varieties. Know one’s onions was first recorded in 1922 and means to be astute in one’s field. An old joke has the esteemed lexicographer C. T. Onions, a longtime editor of the Oxford English Diction- ary, as the eponym behind the phrase.
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