英语词汇let george do it的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

let George do it. We say this satirically today when there is work to be avoided, but France’s Louis XII was serious when he said, “Let George do it.” He referred to his brilliant adviser Car- dinal Georges d’Amboise (1460–1510) and entrusted important affairs of state to him so often that the phrase “let Georges do it; he’s the man of the age” became proverbial, eventually losing its s and becoming “let George do it” and bestowing more glory on the cardinal than his magnificent tomb in the Rouen Cathe- dral. Louis’s minister of state, a prodigy who became a bishop when only 14, was truly “the man of the age,” a Renaissance man who excelled in everything he did, from literature to science.

词汇	let george do it
词源	let George do it. We say this satirically today when there is work to be avoided, but France’s Louis XII was serious when he said, “Let George do it.” He referred to his brilliant adviser Car- dinal Georges d’Amboise (1460–1510) and entrusted important affairs of state to him so often that the phrase “let Georges do it; he’s the man of the age” became proverbial, eventually losing its s and becoming “let George do it” and bestowing more glory on the cardinal than his magnificent tomb in the Rouen Cathe- dral. Louis’s minister of state, a prodigy who became a bishop when only 14, was truly “the man of the age,” a Renaissance man who excelled in everything he did, from literature to science.
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