英语词汇dog in the night-time的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	dog in the night-time
词源	dog in the night-time. In Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story “Silver Blaze” (1892), Sherlock Holmes advises an inspector that the dog in the night-time did not bark because it knew the person who was stealing the horse from the stables. Since then the phrase has meant any unknowing participant in a crime. The phrase was used in 2003 by British author Mark Haddon as the title of his debut novel.
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