英语词汇rubber stamp的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

rubber stamp. People have been making rubber stamps since the 19th century, but the first recorded use of the term figura- tively to describe someone who approves things automatically and uncritically, a yes-man, dates back to a 1919 description of former president William Howard Taft by author William R. Thayer: “He may have heard the exhortation, ‘Be your own President; don’t be anybody’s man or rubber stamp.’ ” The way Thayer uses the phrase suggests that it was current at least 30 or so years before.

词汇	rubber stamp
词源	rubber stamp. People have been making rubber stamps since the 19th century, but the first recorded use of the term figura- tively to describe someone who approves things automatically and uncritically, a yes-man, dates back to a 1919 description of former president William Howard Taft by author William R. Thayer: “He may have heard the exhortation, ‘Be your own President; don’t be anybody’s man or rubber stamp.’ ” The way Thayer uses the phrase suggests that it was current at least 30 or so years before.
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