英语词汇life of riley的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

life of Riley. In a comic song written by Pat Rooney of the “Dancing Rooneys” in the 1880s and performed by him on the vaudeville circuit, the song’s hero, Riley, tells of what he’d do if he “struck it rich.” He promises New York will “swim in wine when the White House and Capitol are mine.” Many word fer- rets believe that the phrase the life of Riley derives from the Rooney song, though Mencken champions the tune “The Best in the House Is None Too Good for Reilly,” written by Lawlor and Blake toward the turn of the century. Yet the Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) may just lend his name in some way to the saying. Riley’s simple, sentimental poems de- picting the lives of barefoot boys loafing and living a life of ease in the summer were immensely popular at the time the phrase came into use.

词汇	life of riley
词源	life of Riley. In a comic song written by Pat Rooney of the “Dancing Rooneys” in the 1880s and performed by him on the vaudeville circuit, the song’s hero, Riley, tells of what he’d do if he “struck it rich.” He promises New York will “swim in wine when the White House and Capitol are mine.” Many word fer- rets believe that the phrase the life of Riley derives from the Rooney song, though Mencken champions the tune “The Best in the House Is None Too Good for Reilly,” written by Lawlor and Blake toward the turn of the century. Yet the Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) may just lend his name in some way to the saying. Riley’s simple, sentimental poems de- picting the lives of barefoot boys loafing and living a life of ease in the summer were immensely popular at the time the phrase came into use.
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