| 词汇 | whole shebang |
| 词源 | whole shebang. The earliest recorded use of shebang is by Walt Whitman in Specimen Days (1862), and Mark Twain used it several times as well. Meaning a poor, temporary dwelling, a shack, this Americanism possibly derives from the Anglo-Irish shebeen, “a low illegal drinking establishment,” older than it by a century or so. In the expression the whole shebang, first re- corded in 1879, shebang means not just a shack but anything at all, that is, any present concern, thing, business—as in “You can take the whole shebang,” you can take all of it. |
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