英语词汇you have the words but you don’t have the music的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

you have the words, but you don’t have the music. You don’t have the essence of something. The phrase can be traced back to Mark Twain. In a foul mood one morning and unable to find a clean shirt fit to wear, he unleashed a string of expletives only he could have strung together. His wife, Livy, standing in the doorway, decided to teach him a lesson and slowly repeated each curse he had uttered. But when she was done, Twain sim- ply sighed and said, “My dear, you have the words, but you don’t have the music.”

词汇	you have the words but you don’t have the music
词源	you have the words, but you don’t have the music. You don’t have the essence of something. The phrase can be traced back to Mark Twain. In a foul mood one morning and unable to find a clean shirt fit to wear, he unleashed a string of expletives only he could have strung together. His wife, Livy, standing in the doorway, decided to teach him a lesson and slowly repeated each curse he had uttered. But when she was done, Twain sim- ply sighed and said, “My dear, you have the words, but you don’t have the music.”
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