英语词汇gangbuster的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

gangbuster. H. L. Mencken said, “Gang-buster was launched in 1935 to describe Thomas E. Dewey (a prominent New York district attorney who prosecuted organized crime and later be- came governor and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for president). The radio program Gangbusters, introduced in 1936, popularized the term, and it has since been applied to any law enforcement officer engaged in breaking up gangs. To do gangbusters is to be very successful, as in “The show did gang- busters,” or “The book sold like gangbusters,” while come on like gangbusters means to approach something very aggressively and energetically, like the opening of a Gangbuster radio pro- gram with its machine guns, sirens, etc.

词汇	gangbuster
词源	gangbuster. H. L. Mencken said, “Gang-buster was launched in 1935 to describe Thomas E. Dewey (a prominent New York district attorney who prosecuted organized crime and later be- came governor and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for president). The radio program Gangbusters, introduced in 1936, popularized the term, and it has since been applied to any law enforcement officer engaged in breaking up gangs. To do gangbusters is to be very successful, as in “The show did gang- busters,” or “The book sold like gangbusters,” while come on like gangbusters means to approach something very aggressively and energetically, like the opening of a Gangbuster radio pro- gram with its machine guns, sirens, etc.
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