| 词汇 | white bread |
| 词源 | white bread. Relatively recent slang, white-bread means “bland,” or “white middle-class values.” It goes back to the 1970s, first recorded in 1977, when Newsweek reported that a top black comedian walked off a Las Vegas stage “fed up with doing white bread humor.” The expression may have black ori- gins, but this is not certain. It may also be partly a pun of white- bred, but it mostly refers to the synthetic white bread of the supermarket, without flavor or character. |
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