英语词汇let her rip的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	let her rip
词源	let her rip. Letting things go at full speed was called let-her- rip-itiveness in mid-19th-century America. The Americanism derives from another American expression, let her rip, which apparently first referred to railroad locomotives. Americans were always obsessed with speed. Wrote one early train traveler out West: “Git up more steam—this ain’t a funeral! Let her rip!”
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