英语词汇lay them in the aisles的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

lay them in the aisles. Theatrical slang for “to have a sensa- tional success,” to lay (or knock) them in the aisles may derive partly from the expression to knock ’em cold, which has its ori- gins in boxing. Both expressions date from only about the 1920s. British listeners would have trouble making sense of the phrase, because until fairly recently they have used aisle for a section of a theater, not a passageway. Since the word is from the Latin ala, “a wing”—this corrupted to aisle over the years possibly because of some confusion with isle—their use of the word is more proper.

词汇	lay them in the aisles
词源	lay them in the aisles. Theatrical slang for “to have a sensa- tional success,” to lay (or knock) them in the aisles may derive partly from the expression to knock ’em cold, which has its ori- gins in boxing. Both expressions date from only about the 1920s. British listeners would have trouble making sense of the phrase, because until fairly recently they have used aisle for a section of a theater, not a passageway. Since the word is from the Latin ala, “a wing”—this corrupted to aisle over the years possibly because of some confusion with isle—their use of the word is more proper.
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