英语词汇give her the gun的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

give her the gun; jump the gun. Give her the gun means to accelerate a car, plane, boat, or any machine. Originally it was an RAF term for “open the throttle wide,” dating to about 1920 and referring to the noise generated by a wide-open airplane motor. Jump the gun, on the other hand, is an expression about 50 years old that derives from both foot racing and hunting. An anxious runner often jumps the gun, that is, starts before the starter fires his pistol in a track event, and a startled pheas- ant will frequently take flight before a hunter can fire his gun, both situations responsible for our figurative use of the phrase—to begin something before preparations for it are complete.

词汇	give her the gun
词源	give her the gun; jump the gun. Give her the gun means to accelerate a car, plane, boat, or any machine. Originally it was an RAF term for “open the throttle wide,” dating to about 1920 and referring to the noise generated by a wide-open airplane motor. Jump the gun, on the other hand, is an expression about 50 years old that derives from both foot racing and hunting. An anxious runner often jumps the gun, that is, starts before the starter fires his pistol in a track event, and a startled pheas- ant will frequently take flight before a hunter can fire his gun, both situations responsible for our figurative use of the phrase—to begin something before preparations for it are complete.
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