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.
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