英语词汇megillah的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	megillah
词源	Megillah. One of the Hebrew scrolls in synagogues read on certain Jewish holy days. They include the Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and the Book of Esther, which is read in synagogue during the festival of Purim. Since a Megillah is long and detailed, the whole megillah became a Yid- dish phrase, now used by many Gentiles, meaning a long- winded story or a long, tedious explanation. A big megillah means the same. Megillah itself derives from Hebrew for “scroll.”
随便看	don’t look a gift horse in the mouth don’t look back something might be gaining on you don’t look now don’t make two bites of a cherry don’t play games with me don’t poke one-s nose into it don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today don’t say it if you can grunt it don’t sell the steak sell the sizzle don’t stick your neck out don’t take any wooden nickels don’t that take the rag off the bush don’t want to pick up that snake now don’t wash your dirty linen in public don’t write it if you can say it doodlebug doo-doo doofus doolally dooley doolittle do’d it doorbuster doornail doo-wop dope

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