英语词汇rough and ready的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

rough and ready. This was not only the nickname of General (later President) Zachary Taylor, but the name of a town in Cal- ifornia. Applied to a person, rough and ready means someone who takes things as they come, who works in a rough but prompt and effective way; referring to things, it means some- thing unelaborate, just good enough to serve the purpose. The term arose at the beginning of the 19th century, some time be- fore the duke of Wellington could have invented it at Waterloo by instructing a Colonel Rough there, “Rough and ready, colo- nel!” as the old story goes.

词汇	rough and ready
词源	rough and ready. This was not only the nickname of General (later President) Zachary Taylor, but the name of a town in Cal- ifornia. Applied to a person, rough and ready means someone who takes things as they come, who works in a rough but prompt and effective way; referring to things, it means some- thing unelaborate, just good enough to serve the purpose. The term arose at the beginning of the 19th century, some time be- fore the duke of Wellington could have invented it at Waterloo by instructing a Colonel Rough there, “Rough and ready, colo- nel!” as the old story goes.
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