| 词汇 | someone stole his rudder |
| 词源 | someone stole his rudder. We find this expression, for “a helpless drunk,” first recorded in the American West during the 19th century, but it is obviously a borrowing from nautical lan- guage, of the sea or the inland waterways of America. |
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