英语词汇shuck those oysters etc的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	shuck those oysters etc
词源	shuck those oysters, etc. We shuck oysters and clams when we open them; we hull strawberries; husk corn; pit or stone plums, cherries, and peaches; pare carrots, turnips, and pars- nips; peel apples and potatoes; French stringbeans; pluck chickens and turkeys; scale fish; split and crack lobsters; and skin eels. That’s 13 or so words used in preparing dinner. Let us know if you know any others.
随便看	nothing to fear but fear itself no tickee no washee not in the same league with not just another pretty face notre pierre not right not so hot not the only pebble on the beach not to be sneezed at not to care a straw not to get the bat off one-s shoulder not to know beans not to know beef from bulls’ foot not to know if one is coming or going not to know one-s ass from one-s elbow not tonight josephine not to turn a hair not to worry not what it-s cracked up to be not worth a bean not worth a continental not worth a hannah cook not worth a plugged nickel not worth a rap not worth a red cent

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