英语词汇yes-man的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

yes-man. In a 1913 cartoon the great sports cartoonist T. A. Dorgan depicted a newspaper editor and his assistants looking over sheets fresh from the press. The assistants, all praising the edition, are labeled yes-men, leading many authorities to credit TAD with the coinage. The expression quickly became a name for assistant directors in Hollywood (Wilson Mizner’s “land where nobody noes”), Variety labeling one unfortunate direc- tor “super-yes-man,” and was well known enough in general speech for Yes-Man’s Land to be used as the title for a book in 1929. Another theory is that yes-man may be of German origin, a translation of Jaherr, “a compliant person, one unable to say no,” which was used by a German author who wrote about America in 1877. In any case, Dorgan certainly popularized the expression.

词汇	yes-man
词源	yes-man. In a 1913 cartoon the great sports cartoonist T. A. Dorgan depicted a newspaper editor and his assistants looking over sheets fresh from the press. The assistants, all praising the edition, are labeled yes-men, leading many authorities to credit TAD with the coinage. The expression quickly became a name for assistant directors in Hollywood (Wilson Mizner’s “land where nobody noes”), Variety labeling one unfortunate direc- tor “super-yes-man,” and was well known enough in general speech for Yes-Man’s Land to be used as the title for a book in 1929. Another theory is that yes-man may be of German origin, a translation of Jaherr, “a compliant person, one unable to say no,” which was used by a German author who wrote about America in 1877. In any case, Dorgan certainly popularized the expression.
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