| 词汇 | don’t that take the rag off the bush |
| 词源 | don’t that take the rag off the bush! An expression of aston- ishment similar to don’t that take the cake! The Americanism may have originally referred only to outrageous behavior as lowdown as stealing the rags [clothing] someone in the old swimmin’ hole has left spread out on a bush. |
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