英语词汇40 rod lightning的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	40 rod lightning
词源	40 rod lightning. Whiskey in the early West could literally kill a man and was thus given colorful names, none more vivid than 40 rod lightning—which likened it to a rifle or shot that could kill a man at 40 yards.
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