| 词汇 | you bet |
| 词源 | You bet!; You betcha!, etc. You bet! means “surely, without a doubt, certainly” and has been a popular-American expression of affirmation since the mid-19th century, the variants you bet- cha!, bet your sweet ass! and you bet your sweet life! being not much younger. The expression arose with the gambling- pioneering spirit in 19th-century America. Wrote Mark Twain in “Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral” (1872): “Slang was the language of Nevada . . . Such phrases as ‘You bet!’ . . . and a hundred others, became so common as to fall from the lips of a speaker uncon- sciously.” You bet your bippy! is a comical play on the expression dating back to the 1960s, with the nonsense word “bippy” probably a euphemism for “ass.” I believe the expression was invented for, or popularized by, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In—a television comedy show. |
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