英语词汇right bower的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	right bower
词源	right bower. Right bower used to be more frequently em- ployed for someone’s “right-hand man,” like Sherlock Holmes’s Dr. Watson. The expression is from the card game euchre, sel- dom played anymore, in which the right bower is the jack of trumps, among the most powerful cards in the deck.
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