英语词汇badmouth的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	badmouth
词源	badmouth. To speak ill of someone. Probably originating among African-American speakers and possibly deriving from a Vai or Mandingo expression, to badmouth was at first em- ployed mostly by southern blacks but is now used nationwide. Its first recorded use in this sense came in 1941 when James Thurber used it in a Saturday Evening Post story: “He bad- mouthed everybody.”
随便看	pussyfoot put a flea in one-s ear put all your eggs in one basket put a sock in it putative put in a good word for someone put in one-s two cents’ worth put it all in the first paragraph put lay one-s finger upon put nothing smaller than your elbow in your ear put one-s best foot forward put one-s foot in one-s mouth put one-s oar in another-s boat put on nothing but the radio put on the buskin put on the dog put on the gloves put on the spot putt put that in your pipe and smoke it put the cart before the horse put the john d to her put the kibosh on put the pedal to the metal put the toothpaste back in the tube

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