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. |