| 词汇 | man bites dog |
| 词源 | man bites dog. “If a dog bites a man,” editors used to instruct cub reporters, “that’s an ordinary occurrence. But when a man bites a dog, that’s news.” The inspiration for both the advice and the saying man bites dog can be traced back to Oliver Gold- smith’s poem “Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog” (1757), about a dog that “went mad and bit a man,” which concludes with the lines: The man recover’d of the bite, The dog it was that died. According to Partridge, this touching poem passed into folk- lore in a number of versions, possibly including a funny one where a man did bite a dog, finally illustrating the journalistic advice. |
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