英语词汇23 skiddoo的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

23 skiddoo. For well over half a century no one has used this expression seriously, but it is still remembered today—mainly as a phrase representative of the Roaring Twenties, which it is not. Twenty-three skiddoo is important, too. It goes back to about 1900 and for 10 years enjoyed great popularity as Ameri- ca’s first national fad expression, paving the way for thousands of other dispensables such as Yes, we have no bananas, Shoo-fly, Hey, Abbott!, Coming, mother! and I dood it! Twenty-three skid- doo practically lost its meaning of “scram” or “beat it” and just became the thing to say, anytime. As for its derivation, it is said to have been invented or popularized by that innovative early comic-strip artist “Tad” Dorgan, encountered frequently in these pages under hot dog, yes man, and other of his coinages. Regarding its composition, skiddoo may be a shortening of the earlier “skedaddle.” Twenty-three is a mystery. Perhaps it was a code number used by telegraphers. There is even a theory that it “owes its existence to the fact that the most gripping and thrilling word in A Tale of Two Cities is twenty-three”: Sydney Carton, the 23rd man to be executed on the 23rd of the month. Finally, there is the story that twenty-three referred to the ad- dress of New York City’s Flatiron Building, on whose windy corner men liked to watch women’s skirts blow upward, until cops told them to scram—“Twenty-three skiddo!”

词汇	23 skiddoo
词源	23 skiddoo. For well over half a century no one has used this expression seriously, but it is still remembered today—mainly as a phrase representative of the Roaring Twenties, which it is not. Twenty-three skiddoo is important, too. It goes back to about 1900 and for 10 years enjoyed great popularity as Ameri- ca’s first national fad expression, paving the way for thousands of other dispensables such as Yes, we have no bananas, Shoo-fly, Hey, Abbott!, Coming, mother! and I dood it! Twenty-three skid- doo practically lost its meaning of “scram” or “beat it” and just became the thing to say, anytime. As for its derivation, it is said to have been invented or popularized by that innovative early comic-strip artist “Tad” Dorgan, encountered frequently in these pages under hot dog, yes man, and other of his coinages. Regarding its composition, skiddoo may be a shortening of the earlier “skedaddle.” Twenty-three is a mystery. Perhaps it was a code number used by telegraphers. There is even a theory that it “owes its existence to the fact that the most gripping and thrilling word in A Tale of Two Cities is twenty-three”: Sydney Carton, the 23rd man to be executed on the 23rd of the month. Finally, there is the story that twenty-three referred to the ad- dress of New York City’s Flatiron Building, on whose windy corner men liked to watch women’s skirts blow upward, until cops told them to scram—“Twenty-three skiddo!”
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