英语词汇double cross的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

double cross. Double cross came into use only in about 1870, apparently as an English racing term describing the common practice of winning a race after promising to arrange a cross, to lose it. Cross, for “a prearranged swindle or fix,” dates back to the early 19th century and was used by Thackeray in Vanity Fair to describe a fixed horse race. The adjective double here is meant in its sense of “duplicity,” so double cross really means “dishonesty about dishonesty”; in fact, the earlier expression “to put on the double double” meant the same as double-cross.

词汇	double cross
词源	double cross. Double cross came into use only in about 1870, apparently as an English racing term describing the common practice of winning a race after promising to arrange a cross, to lose it. Cross, for “a prearranged swindle or fix,” dates back to the early 19th century and was used by Thackeray in Vanity Fair to describe a fixed horse race. The adjective double here is meant in its sense of “duplicity,” so double cross really means “dishonesty about dishonesty”; in fact, the earlier expression “to put on the double double” meant the same as double-cross.
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