| 词汇 | a touch of caruso |
| 词源 | a touch of Caruso. A great tenor and a lighthearted man of boyish charm, Enrico Caruso (1873–1921) was something of a cutup and once pinched a girl’s derrière in a Paris park. Result- ing publicity gave rise to the expression a touch of Caruso (“Give her a touch of Caruso, chief!”), meaning the turn of a ship’s engines astern. |
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