英语词汇lit up like a christmas tree的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	lit up like a christmas tree
词源	lit up like a Christmas tree. Brightly and brilliantly colorful. I’ve been unable to locate a source for the phrase, which might date back to Victorian times. The best I can do is cite F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925): “[Gatsby’s parties were il- luminated by] enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden.”
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