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.
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