英语词汇let the cat out of the bag的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	let the cat out of the bag
词源	let the cat out of the bag. Let the cat out of the bag may have originally referred to the master-at-arms aboard a British naval ship taking the cat-o’-nine-tails from its blood-red carrying bag before a seaman was flogged. The connection between this and an untimely revelation is a tenuous one, but no better ex- planation has been offered so far.
随便看	too lazy to work and too nervous to steal too many cooks spoil the broth too many irons in the fire too much of a good thing too old to cut the mustard too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash to oppose preston and his mastiffs toothache tree tooth and nail too thick to drink and too thin to plow tooth-jumping toothwalker tootle-oo toots tootsie roll to paint a house to pan top banana top brass top dollar top-drawer topiary top of the heap top of the morning to you toponomist

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