英语词汇give a damn的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	give a damn
词源	give a damn. The above was originally “I don’t give a dam,” the expression probably brought back to England from India by military men in the mid 18th century. A dam was an Indian coin of little value. I don’t give a damn is first recorded in Amer- ica in the 1890s. Its most famous use was in Gone with the Wind (1939), when Rhett Butler tells Scarlett O’Hara: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
随便看	teapoy tear down this wall tearing up the pea patch tear of christ tears of eos ē-os tears of the sun teasel technicolor techy teddy bear teddy boys teddy girls tee teeny-weeny teetotal teflon teflon don tehrangeles telegram telegraph telegraphese telemark telepathy telephone telephone hitler

英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。