英语词汇lobster shift的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	lobster shift
词源	lobster shift. Lobster shift, for the newspaper shift commenc- ing at four in the morning, is said to have originated at the de- funct New York Journal-American early in this century. The newspaper’s plant was near the East Side docks and workers on this shift came to work at about the same time lobstermen were putting out to sea in their boats.
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