| 词汇 | a frankie yale |
| 词源 | a Frankie Yale. All but obsolete today, a Frankie Yale means something cheap and useless, after the rotgut liquor and badly made cigars mobster Frankie Yale (1895–1927) forced his speakeasy clients to buy in the 1920s. Yale was killed in New York’s first machine-gun assassination. |
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