英语词汇didn’t lay a finger on的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	didn’t lay a finger on
词源	didn’t lay a finger on. These words seem so obvious for “didn’t touch, didn’t harm in the slightest way” that one would think the expression is of ancient origin. But the O.E.D. has only traced the first recorded use of the common phrase back to England in 1865.
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