英语词汇lie like a butcher-s dog的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	lie like a butcher-s dog
词源	lie like a butcher’s dog. Grose, in the 1788 edition of his Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, tells us this was “a simile often applied to married men,” who, “like the butcher’s dog” would often “lie by the beef without touching it.” The hu- morous expression for involuntary sexual abstinence didn’t last until Victorian times, when it might have achieved wider currency.
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