英语词汇getting a handsome husband的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	getting a handsome husband
词源	getting a handsome husband. A phrase with a little game at- tached to it. A handsome husband is the last piece of food left on a serving plate. You’ll get a handsome husband if you take this last piece. This seems to be a New England custom, mainly among women who were considered to be old maids.
随便看	in the chips in the clutch in the country land of the blind the one-eyed man is king in the dark all cats are grey in the doghouse in the driver-s seat in the groove in the hole in the ketchup in the land country of the blind the one-eyed man is king in the money in the name of the great jehovah and the continental congress in the nick in the ozone in the pink in the red in there pitching in the tub in the wings into each life some rain must fall intoxicated intransigent introvert in two shakes of a lamb-s tail inuit words in english

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