| 词汇 | minister-s rib factory |
| 词源 | Minister’s Rib Factory. A name people jokingly gave to Mount Holyoke Seminary (which later became Mount Holyoke College) “because the South Hadley, Massachusetts, school turned out so many wives for ministers and missionaries,” ac- cording to Imogene Wolcott in The New England Yankee Cook- book (1939). |
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