英语词汇words at war的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	words at war
词源	words at war. In ancient times “word contests” were often quite literally wars with words. The most colorful example of this were those poets who led pre-Islamic Arabs into combat, hurling curses at the enemy, who usually had poets who cursed back just as colorfully.
随便看	on one-s uppers on the back burner on the ball on the beam on the boards on the bum on the carpet on the cuff on the fritz on the hind tit teat on the hip on the house on the lam on the level on the make on the nail on the nose on the pad on the pig-s back on the qui vive on the rocks on the ropes on the same sheet of music with on the shady side of 40 on the side of the angels

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