英语词汇drowner的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	drowner
词源	drowner. One of the few, if not the only user of this word, was the renowned comedian W. C. Fields. As a young man, Fields was hired by concessionaires as a drowner, to pretend that he was drowning so that crowds would gather and they would sell more food.
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