英语词汇armed to the teeth的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	armed to the teeth
词源	armed to the teeth. Some real or imaginary pirate swinging aboard a ship, one hand on a rope, the other hand wielding a cutlass or a pistol, with a knife clamped between his teeth, sug- gested this expression. The phrase, still used if mostly in a hu- morous way, seems to have originated in the first half of the 19th century. English politician Richard Cobden used it in 1849, perhaps inspired by an adventure writer of the day.
随便看	putative put in a good word for someone put in one-s two cents’ worth put it all in the first paragraph put lay one-s finger upon put nothing smaller than your elbow in your ear put one-s best foot forward put one-s foot in one-s mouth put one-s oar in another-s boat put on nothing but the radio put on the buskin put on the dog put on the gloves put on the spot putt put that in your pipe and smoke it put the cart before the horse put the john d to her put the kibosh on put the pedal to the metal put the toothpaste back in the tube put through the mill put to the pale put up on a pedestal put up your dukes

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