英语词汇shit or get off the pot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	shit or get off the pot
词源	shit or get off the pot. Although Partridge gives this as World War II Canadian army slang “directed at a dice player unable to ‘crap out,’ ” it has been traced to the early 1900s in America, its maiden aunt ancestor probably fish or cut bait, “do something now or give up.”
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