| 词汇 | so long charley |
| 词源 | so long Charley; so long. In the epic race between Seabiscuit and War Admiral on November 1, 1938, Seabiscuit’s jockey George Woolf pulled his horse away from his great adversary, who was ridden by jockey Charley Kurtsinger. According to Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit, An American Legend (2001): “War Admiral tried to answer, clinging to Seabiscuit for a few strides, but it was no use. He slid from Seabiscuit’s side as if gravity were pulling him backward. Seabiscuit’s ears flipped up. Woolf made a small motion with his hand: ‘So long Charley.’ He had coined a phrase that jockeys would use for decades.” Thousands of other Americans would use the expression as well. So long itself, however, dates back to the mid-1800s, this much older salutation possibly deriving from the German adieu so lange, or the Hebrew shalom—both of which mean “peace.” |
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