英语词汇shoot the works的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	shoot the works
词源	shoot the works. A western Americanism meaning to spend everything, get whatever you want.
随便看	the early bird catches the worm the earth moved the effluent society the eisner the elephant in the room the enemy of my enemy is my friend the english language the eyes are the windows of the soul the face of a robber-s horse the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves the female of the species the final condensation the first hundred years are the hardest the first million is the hardest the first murderer the flying toilet the flying tomato the fool-s tax the forest primeval the four freedoms the four hundred the french disease the game is not worth the candle the game is up the game of the arrow

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