英语词汇shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations. “There’s no’ but three generations atween clog and clog,” says the old Lancashire proverb that is probably the ancestor of this expres- sion, but American multimillionaire Andrew Carnegie (1835– 1919) is credited with the exact words shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations, meaning that family wealth is not long- lasting. The words don’t apply to the Rockefeller, Du Pont, Rothschild, and Ford families, to name but a few that come quickly to mind.

词汇	shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations
词源	shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations. “There’s no’ but three generations atween clog and clog,” says the old Lancashire proverb that is probably the ancestor of this expres- sion, but American multimillionaire Andrew Carnegie (1835– 1919) is credited with the exact words shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations, meaning that family wealth is not long- lasting. The words don’t apply to the Rockefeller, Du Pont, Rothschild, and Ford families, to name but a few that come quickly to mind.
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