英语词汇don’t hurry hopkins的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

don’t hurry, Hopkins. A Mr. Hopkins, late of Kentucky, once returned a promissory note to a creditor along with in- structions that “The said Hopkins is not to be hurried in pay- ing the above.” Since that day in the middle of the 19th century, it is claimed, said Hopkins has been remembered by the ad- monition Don’t hurry, Hopkins, an ironic reproof to deadbeats late in paying their bills or persons slow in anything else. But the phrase was used in England almost a century before with just the opposite humorous meaning, implying “don’t be too hasty.” In this sense it derived from a Mr. Hopkins, or Hopkin, “that came to jail over night, and was hanged the next morning.”

词汇	don’t hurry hopkins
词源	don’t hurry, Hopkins. A Mr. Hopkins, late of Kentucky, once returned a promissory note to a creditor along with in- structions that “The said Hopkins is not to be hurried in pay- ing the above.” Since that day in the middle of the 19th century, it is claimed, said Hopkins has been remembered by the ad- monition Don’t hurry, Hopkins, an ironic reproof to deadbeats late in paying their bills or persons slow in anything else. But the phrase was used in England almost a century before with just the opposite humorous meaning, implying “don’t be too hasty.” In this sense it derived from a Mr. Hopkins, or Hopkin, “that came to jail over night, and was hanged the next morning.”
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