英语词汇get the hook的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

get the hook. A defunct journal named The Actor’s Fan Bulle- tin (1931) gave the first use of the phrase: “At Miner’s Bowery Theatre in New York were presented the first amateur nights in burlesque. Here the aspirants for footlight fame were given the opportunity to show their goods. The audience was at liberty to give full expression to their approval or dislike to the offerings of the contestants for the prizes. One Friday night, in October 1903, at Miner’s Bowery, a particularly bad amateur was inflict- ing upon a patient audience an impossible tenor solo. Despite howls, groans and cat-calls, the artist persisted in staying on, when Tom Miner, who was running the show, chanced to see a large old-fashioned crook-handled cane which had been used by one of the Negro impersonators. Quickly, he had Charles Guthinger, the stage manager, lash it to a long pole. With this, he stepped to the wings without getting into sight of the audi- ence, deftly slipped the hook around the neck of the singer and yanked him off the stage before he knew what happened. The next amateur was giving an imitation when a small boy yelled, ‘Get the hook!’ The audience roared and the actor fled in dis- may.” Many later stars including Fanny Brice, Joe Cook, and George White endured the ordeal of the hook. See give the hook.

词汇	get the hook
词源	get the hook. A defunct journal named The Actor’s Fan Bulle- tin (1931) gave the first use of the phrase: “At Miner’s Bowery Theatre in New York were presented the first amateur nights in burlesque. Here the aspirants for footlight fame were given the opportunity to show their goods. The audience was at liberty to give full expression to their approval or dislike to the offerings of the contestants for the prizes. One Friday night, in October 1903, at Miner’s Bowery, a particularly bad amateur was inflict- ing upon a patient audience an impossible tenor solo. Despite howls, groans and cat-calls, the artist persisted in staying on, when Tom Miner, who was running the show, chanced to see a large old-fashioned crook-handled cane which had been used by one of the Negro impersonators. Quickly, he had Charles Guthinger, the stage manager, lash it to a long pole. With this, he stepped to the wings without getting into sight of the audi- ence, deftly slipped the hook around the neck of the singer and yanked him off the stage before he knew what happened. The next amateur was giving an imitation when a small boy yelled, ‘Get the hook!’ The audience roared and the actor fled in dis- may.” Many later stars including Fanny Brice, Joe Cook, and George White endured the ordeal of the hook. See give the hook.
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