词汇 | george |
词源 | George. Though it may have originated 30 years or so earlier, George for anything good, O.K., or excellent (“that’s real George”) was most popular during the 1950s. No one knows if there was a real George behind the expression (certainly not George Washington, whose first name is slang for a dollar bill because of his picture on it, and surely not either of the two other U.S. presidents named George). Perhaps George here de- rives from the name of the French cardinal Georges d’Amboise of let george do it. |
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