英语词汇doesn’t know beans的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

doesn’t know beans. Boston, home of the “bean eaters,” “home of the bean and the cod,” may be behind the phrase. Walsh, in his Handy-book of Literary Curiosities (1892), says that the American expression originated as a sly dig at Boston’s pre- tensions to culture, a hint that Bostonians knew that Boston baked beans were good to eat, that they were made from small white “pea beans”—even if Bostonians knew nothing else. It may also be that the American phrase is a negative rendering of the British saying “he knows how many beans make five”—that is, he is no fool, he’s well informed—an expression that proba- bly originated in the days when children learned to count by using beans. But he doesn’t know beans, “he don’t know from nothing,” possibly has a much simpler origin that either of these theories. It probably refers to the fact that beans are little things of no great worth, as in the expression “not worth a row (or hill) of beans.”

词汇	doesn’t know beans
词源	doesn’t know beans. Boston, home of the “bean eaters,” “home of the bean and the cod,” may be behind the phrase. Walsh, in his Handy-book of Literary Curiosities (1892), says that the American expression originated as a sly dig at Boston’s pre- tensions to culture, a hint that Bostonians knew that Boston baked beans were good to eat, that they were made from small white “pea beans”—even if Bostonians knew nothing else. It may also be that the American phrase is a negative rendering of the British saying “he knows how many beans make five”—that is, he is no fool, he’s well informed—an expression that proba- bly originated in the days when children learned to count by using beans. But he doesn’t know beans, “he don’t know from nothing,” possibly has a much simpler origin that either of these theories. It probably refers to the fact that beans are little things of no great worth, as in the expression “not worth a row (or hill) of beans.”
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