英语词汇looney tunes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	looney tunes
词源	looney tunes. Looney Tunes was originally the name of a Warner Brothers cartoon series that first appeared in 1930, tak- ing its name of course from looney, which comes from lunatic. In recent times, looney tunes has been used by law enforcement authorities to mean a crazed subject and has had increased general usage in the same sense. President Reagan referred to terrorists and their supporters as looney tunes. It was street slang long before this, however.
随便看	all dressed up and no place to go all ears alley-oop all fogged up all foreign fruit plants are free from duty all for one and one for all all good americans go to paris when they die all gussied up all hands and the cook all hat and no cattle all his bullet holes is in the front of him allies alligator alligators-in-the sewers legend all i know is what i read in the papers all in the same boat all is lost save honor alliteration all men make faults all mouth and no ears all my eye and betty martin all oak and iron bound all-overs all over the ballpark all quiet on the potomac

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