英语词汇wave the bloody shirt的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	wave the bloody shirt
词源	wave the bloody shirt. Used in both the North and the South from after the Civil War until the present to indicate any means employed to stir up hostility between the North and the South. “The G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic] waved the Bloody Shirt in many a political campaign, advising its boys in blue to ‘vote as you shoot!’,” wrote Jerome Kerwin, Civil Military Rela- tionships in American Life, 1948.
随便看	puss pussel-gutted pussyfoot put a flea in one-s ear put all your eggs in one basket put a sock in it putative put in a good word for someone put in one-s two cents’ worth put it all in the first paragraph put lay one-s finger upon put nothing smaller than your elbow in your ear put one-s best foot forward put one-s foot in one-s mouth put one-s oar in another-s boat put on nothing but the radio put on the buskin put on the dog put on the gloves put on the spot putt put that in your pipe and smoke it put the cart before the horse put the john d to her put the kibosh on

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