英语词汇anything for a quiet life的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

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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