英语词汇fly-up-the-creek的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	fly-up-the-creek
词源	fly-up-the-creek. We don’t hear this expression today, but it is recorded as early as 1845 as the nickname for a resident of Florida. Floridians were so called because fly-up-the-creek is a popular name of the small green heron common in the state. Walt Whitman used the expression in this sense and it later meant “a giddy capricious person.”
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