英语词汇applesauce的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

applesauce. The expression applesauce for disguised flattery dates to the early 20th century and may derive from “the boarding-house trick of serving plenty of this cheap comestible when richer fare is scanty,” according to a magazine of the time. The term also came to mean lies and exaggerations. As a word for a sauce made from stewed, sweetened apples, applesauce is an Americanism dating back at least to the mid-18th century. Applesauce as a term for insincere flattery may also have been invented by American cartoonist Thomas Aloysius Dorgan (1877–1929), “Tad” having been the most prolific word coiner of his day. No one knows for sure.

词汇	applesauce
词源	applesauce. The expression applesauce for disguised flattery dates to the early 20th century and may derive from “the boarding-house trick of serving plenty of this cheap comestible when richer fare is scanty,” according to a magazine of the time. The term also came to mean lies and exaggerations. As a word for a sauce made from stewed, sweetened apples, applesauce is an Americanism dating back at least to the mid-18th century. Applesauce as a term for insincere flattery may also have been invented by American cartoonist Thomas Aloysius Dorgan (1877–1929), “Tad” having been the most prolific word coiner of his day. No one knows for sure.
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