| 词汇 | save a sailor |
| 词源 | Save a sailor! According to an 18th-century superstition, when a glass “rings” in a bar or at a table, a sailor will be drowned—un- less a finger is placed on the glass to stop the ringing and some- one cries out, “Save a sailor!” |
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