英语词汇you pays your money and you take your choice的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

you pays your money and you take your choice. This ex- pression meaning “to proceed in a regular or orthodox man- ner” sounds as if it originated with a carnival show where one paid an admission price to see one of several shows offered. It may have, but the first recorded American use of the phrase is in the Sacramento Union (January 5, 1864): “The reader ‘pays his money and can take his own choice.’ ” Note the quote marks, however, as if the phrase was commonly used at the time. Pos- sibly it derived from a line in a short poem published in the British magazine Punch in 1846.

词汇	you pays your money and you take your choice
词源	you pays your money and you take your choice. This ex- pression meaning “to proceed in a regular or orthodox man- ner” sounds as if it originated with a carnival show where one paid an admission price to see one of several shows offered. It may have, but the first recorded American use of the phrase is in the Sacramento Union (January 5, 1864): “The reader ‘pays his money and can take his own choice.’ ” Note the quote marks, however, as if the phrase was commonly used at the time. Pos- sibly it derived from a line in a short poem published in the British magazine Punch in 1846.
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