英语词汇fool-s gold的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	fool-s gold
词源	fool’s gold. A term coined in the American West around 1875 for iron or copper pyrites, which are sometimes mistaken for gold; used figuratively to mean anything that deceives a person. “ ‘That’s fool’s gold. See how green those flakes look in the light? Real gold don’t do that,’ ” wrote Anke Kristke in Women of the West (1990).
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