| 词汇 | like trying to nail jell-o to a tree |
| 词源 | like trying to nail Jell-o to a tree. Theodore Roosevelt seems to have invented the idea behind this metaphor, if not the exact words, in a July 2, 1915, letter to William Roscoe Thayer, in which he described the difficulty of negotiating with Colombia regarding the Panama Canal. His exact words were: “You could no more make an agreement with them than you could nail currant jelly to a wall—and the failure to nail currant jelly to a wall is not due to the nail; it is due to the currant jelly.” |
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