| 词汇 | anything for a quiet life |
| 词源 | anything for a quiet life. Though Dickens’s Sam Weller im- mortalized this phrase in The Pickwick Papers, referring to a man who took a “situation” at a lighthouse, the expression dates back to the 17th century and a play by Thomas Middleton. A variation, dating only to about 1968, is the catchphrase any- thing for a quiet wife. |
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