英语词汇little old ladies in tennis shoes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	little old ladies in tennis shoes
词源	little old ladies in tennis shoes. This U.S. catchphrase, which has been around since the 1920s, describes old ladies who are, according to Partridge, “bourgeois-beldames—fussy, prim, self-important, naïve, ignorant, self-confident, self-righteous, gullible, conventional, conservative, old-fashioned, prudish, unfashionable, and typical rural or small town.” See also old lady in dubuque.
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