英语词汇six of one and a half-dozen of another的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

six of one and a half-dozen of another. Captain Frederick Marryat may have invented this phrase in The Pirates and the Three Cutters (1836), or else it was old sea slang that the author recorded. It apparently arose from no specific situation and means “nothing to choose between,” “one and the same,” simply because “six” and “a half dozen” are identical. arcades ambo a similar phrase, means two persons having the same tastes or habits in common. It comes from Virgil’s seventh eclogue: “Ambo florentes aetabibus, Arcades ambo” (“Both in the flower of youth, Arcadians both”).

词汇	six of one and a half-dozen of another
词源	six of one and a half-dozen of another. Captain Frederick Marryat may have invented this phrase in The Pirates and the Three Cutters (1836), or else it was old sea slang that the author recorded. It apparently arose from no specific situation and means “nothing to choose between,” “one and the same,” simply because “six” and “a half dozen” are identical. arcades ambo a similar phrase, means two persons having the same tastes or habits in common. It comes from Virgil’s seventh eclogue: “Ambo florentes aetabibus, Arcades ambo” (“Both in the flower of youth, Arcadians both”).
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