| 词源 |
flesh-spades; flesh-tailor. In Tom Jones (1749) Fielding writes about “The injury done to the beauty of her husband by the ‘flesh-spades’ of Mrs. Honour.” The humorous term flesh- spade for fingernails, those digging tools protruding from our fingers, may have been invented by the British novelist, but there is no proof of this. Flesh-tailor was a 17th-century term for a surgeon, used by John Ford in his play ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1633). |