英语词汇as poor as job-s turkey的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

as poor as Job’s turkey. An old saying possibly invented by Canadian humorist Thomas C. Haliburton, who combined shrewd New England talk with the boastful tall talk of the frontier. He apparently invented the common Americanism in one of his tales, explaining that the turkey was even poorer than the biblical Job, who had been stripped of all his worldly goods by God. Job’s turkey was so poor that it had but one feather to its tail, and so poorly fed that it had to lean up against the fence when it gobbled, lest the exertion make it fall down.

词汇	as poor as job-s turkey
词源	as poor as Job’s turkey. An old saying possibly invented by Canadian humorist Thomas C. Haliburton, who combined shrewd New England talk with the boastful tall talk of the frontier. He apparently invented the common Americanism in one of his tales, explaining that the turkey was even poorer than the biblical Job, who had been stripped of all his worldly goods by God. Job’s turkey was so poor that it had but one feather to its tail, and so poorly fed that it had to lean up against the fence when it gobbled, lest the exertion make it fall down.
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