英语词汇leaving flat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	leaving flat
词源	leaving flat. A good friend doesn’t leave one flat, when he or she has no use for you anymore. The expression goes back to the early days of the 20th century, but that is about all we know about it. Perhaps it suggests the flat on a car’s tire, one which the “friend” refuses to help fix, leaving his friend flat.
随便看	when in rome do as the romans do when it hits the fan when my ship comes in when one door shuts another opens when the cat-s away the mice will play when the cocqcigrues come when the going gets tough the tough get going when the rubber hits the road when the shit hits the fan when the world grows honest when two people ride a horse one must ride behind when you call me that smile when you seek revenge dig two graves—one for your enemy one for yourself where have all the flowers gone where-s the beef where-s the fire where-s the rest of me where the hoot owl hollers at noon where there-s smoke there-s fire wherewithal whig whip city whip of god whippet whipping boy

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