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.
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