词汇 | wheelbarrow fashion |
词源 | wheelbarrow fashion. See quote from Yankee Magazine, April 1828: “They were . . . ordered to kiss each other ‘wheel- barrow fashion’—You would then see a young man and a girl meet on the floor, close their right and left hands, on both sides; and with a whirl . . . turn through their arms, bring the back part of their shoulders in contact—each with the head resting upon the other’s right shoulder, their mouths meeting.” |
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