英语词汇get by the short hairs的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

get by the short hairs. It is widely assumed that the short hairs here are the pubic hairs, and short hairs is, in fact, slang for the hair around the genitals. George P. Burnham first used the expression in the form “get where the hair is short” in his Memoirs of the United States Secret Service (1872), and some department of dirty tricks no doubt invented it. But to get com- plete mastery over a person by grabbing his or her pubic hair would be difficult, to say the least, even if he were naked. So would holding someone by the short hairs at the nape of the neck, another explanation. Maybe the relatively short hairs of the beard provide a logical answer, and there is a much earlier expression to take by the beard that means about the same thing.

词汇	get by the short hairs
词源	get by the short hairs. It is widely assumed that the short hairs here are the pubic hairs, and short hairs is, in fact, slang for the hair around the genitals. George P. Burnham first used the expression in the form “get where the hair is short” in his Memoirs of the United States Secret Service (1872), and some department of dirty tricks no doubt invented it. But to get com- plete mastery over a person by grabbing his or her pubic hair would be difficult, to say the least, even if he were naked. So would holding someone by the short hairs at the nape of the neck, another explanation. Maybe the relatively short hairs of the beard provide a logical answer, and there is a much earlier expression to take by the beard that means about the same thing.
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