英语词汇don’t take any wooden nickels的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

don’t take any wooden nickels. First recorded in about 1915, this expression was originally a warning from friends and rela- tives to rubes leaving the sticks in the great migration from ru- ral areas to the big cities at the turn of the century. It was a hu- morous adjuration meaning beware of those city slickers, for no real wooden nickels were ever counterfeited—they would have cost more to make than they’d have been worth. Ironically, country boys were the ones who possibly did succeed in pass- ing off wooden objects as the real thing. Yankee peddlers as early as 1825 allegedly sold wooden nutmegs, which cost man- ufacturers a quarter of a cent apiece, mixed in with lots of real nutmegs worth four cents each.

词汇	don’t take any wooden nickels
词源	don’t take any wooden nickels. First recorded in about 1915, this expression was originally a warning from friends and rela- tives to rubes leaving the sticks in the great migration from ru- ral areas to the big cities at the turn of the century. It was a hu- morous adjuration meaning beware of those city slickers, for no real wooden nickels were ever counterfeited—they would have cost more to make than they’d have been worth. Ironically, country boys were the ones who possibly did succeed in pass- ing off wooden objects as the real thing. Yankee peddlers as early as 1825 allegedly sold wooden nutmegs, which cost man- ufacturers a quarter of a cent apiece, mixed in with lots of real nutmegs worth four cents each.
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