英语词汇what every schoolboy knows的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	what every schoolboy knows
词源	what every schoolboy knows. A phrase apparently coined by Jonathan Swift in The Country Life. It is a common put- down of someone who takes himself too seriously. “How haughtily he cocks his nose / To tell what every schoolboy knows.”
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