英语词汇land-office business的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

land-office business. Prior to the Civil War, the U.S. govern- ment established “land offices” for the allotment of government- owned land in western territories just opened to settlers. These offices registered applicants, and the rush of citizens lining up mornings long before the office opened made the expression doing a land-office business, “a tremendous amount of busi- ness,” part of the language by at least 1853. Adding to the queues were prospectors filing mining claims, which were also handled by land offices. After several decades the phrase was applied figuratively to a great business in something other than land, even, in one case I remember, to a land-office business in fish.

词汇	land-office business
词源	land-office business. Prior to the Civil War, the U.S. govern- ment established “land offices” for the allotment of government- owned land in western territories just opened to settlers. These offices registered applicants, and the rush of citizens lining up mornings long before the office opened made the expression doing a land-office business, “a tremendous amount of busi- ness,” part of the language by at least 1853. Adding to the queues were prospectors filing mining claims, which were also handled by land offices. After several decades the phrase was applied figuratively to a great business in something other than land, even, in one case I remember, to a land-office business in fish.
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