| 词汇 | featherbed lane |
| 词源 | featherbed lane. Any bad, unpaved, rutted road. According to an old unlikely story, George Washington had housewives pave a road with featherbeds (bedcovers) so that the Redcoats wouldn’t hear his troops marching by at night—this giving rise to the term. |
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