英语词汇wouldn’t harm a fly的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	wouldn’t harm a fly
词源	wouldn’t harm a fly. The fly has long been considered an in- significant creature, and therefore anyone who wouldn’t hurt one, as in this old proverb, would be considered a gentle, kindly person. These words are the last in the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho, coming when Norman Bates (and the mother he has made himself) says she/he “wouldn’t even harm a fly.”
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