英语词汇know what-s what的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	know what-s what
词源	know what’s what. Wrote Samuel Butler in Hudibras (1663): “He knew what’s what, and that’s as high/ As metaphysic wit can fly.” To know what is what is still to be a shrewd person, to know what is going on. The phrase is thought to derive from the old question in logic Quid est quid? “what is what,” one which someone would have to be very shrewd to answer.
随便看	all-american all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others all at sea all chiefs and no indians all dressed up and no place to go all ears alley-oop all fogged up all foreign fruit plants are free from duty all for one and one for all all good americans go to paris when they die all gussied up all hands and the cook all hat and no cattle all his bullet holes is in the front of him allies alligator alligators-in-the sewers legend all i know is what i read in the papers all in the same boat all is lost save honor alliteration all men make faults all mouth and no ears all my eye and betty martin

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