| 词源 |
sober as a judge. In the play Don Quixote in England (1734) one of Henry Fielding’s characters says: “I am as sober as a judge.” Perhaps it was simply Fielding’s observation that judg- es are almost always sober on the bench, but the phrase may have its source in the saying an appeal from philip drunk to philip sober. Sober is the exact opposite of the Latin word for “in his cups,” deriving from so, “apart from,” and bria, “cup.” |