英语词汇smart cookie的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

smart cookie. “He’s a real smart cookie,” a doctor recently told me (2003) of another diagnostician, proving that the ex- pression is still used. The cookie in the phrase is American slang for a person and is first recorded in this sense about 1917 in the form of “He’s a hardboiled cookie,” by hardboiled cookie President Harry S. Truman in his book Dear Bess. The expres- sion smart cookie in its entirety didn’t find its way into print un- til 1955. Tough cookie and rough cookie are also heard.

词汇	smart cookie
词源	smart cookie. “He’s a real smart cookie,” a doctor recently told me (2003) of another diagnostician, proving that the ex- pression is still used. The cookie in the phrase is American slang for a person and is first recorded in this sense about 1917 in the form of “He’s a hardboiled cookie,” by hardboiled cookie President Harry S. Truman in his book Dear Bess. The expres- sion smart cookie in its entirety didn’t find its way into print un- til 1955. Tough cookie and rough cookie are also heard.
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