英语词汇featherbedding的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	featherbedding
词源	featherbedding. “What do you want, feather beds?” man- agement supposedly snapped when Rock Island Railroad freight crews complained that their caboose bunks were too hard. This has been cited as the origin of the term featherbed- ding, for “unions forcing employers to hire more men than nec- essary for a job.” It is certain, however, only that the expression was first recorded during a labor dispute in 1943.
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