英语词汇sleep on a clothesline的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	sleep on a clothesline
词源	sleep on a clothesline. The expression “I’m so tired I could sleep on a clothesline,” with much more British than American use today, dates back to 18th-century England, when people unable to afford a bed in boardinghouses were charged two pennies to sit on a communal bench through the night, leaning on a clothesline stretched tight in front of them. The taut “two- penny rope” was cut in the morning, the sleepers jolted into re- ality again.
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