英语词汇why did the chicken cross the road的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	why did the chicken cross the road
词源	Why did the chicken cross the road? Among the oldest of jokes still told (by children), the answer being “to get to the other side.” The words date back at least to mid-19th-century England. They are also used by adults as a reply to what seems to be an unanswerable question. A recent gangster film, Heist (2001), has the lines: “Why did the chicken cross the road?” “Because the road crossed the chicken.”
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