词汇 | shut up he explained |
词源 | shut up, he explained. Perhaps the most famous of Ameri- can author Ring Lardner’s quips was inspired by the writer’s move with his family from Chicago to New York, where he be- gan his syndicated column. Somehow the Lardners went astray in the Bronx. The famous exchange came when the author’s son asked him if they were lost, Lardner later re-creating the scene in his short story “The Young Immigrants,” told from a child’s viewpoint: “Are you lost, Daddy?” I asked tenderly. “Shut up,” he explained. |
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