| 词汇 | flat |
| 词源 | flat; leave flat. Flats Made Round, gas station signs used to advertise in the depression days of the 1930s. The expression leave flat (as in “I don’t want friends who leave a guy flat”) seems to have been suggested by a lonely dilapidated car stranded somewhere or making its lonely way home wounded and unaided. |
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