英语词汇ladies of the night的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	ladies of the night
词源	ladies of the night. This American euphemism for prosti- tutes was popular in the 1870s and is still used today. Interest- ing collective nouns for such ladies include: a horde of hookers, a jam of tarts, a wiggle of whores, a flourish of strumpets, an es- say of Trollope’s, an anthology of pros. See brides of the multitude.
随便看	there but for the grace of god go i thereby hangs a tale the red one there-s a one-eyed man in the game there-s as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it there-s a sucker born every minute there-s many a slip twixt between cup and lip there-s no love lost between them there-s no there there there-s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos there-s nothing new under the sun there-s the rub there was a little girl there were giants in the earth in those days the rich are different from you and me the richest corpse in the graveyard thermos the rock thersitical the same dog bit me thesaurus the scene opens the schilder technique the screw plot the second city of the world

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