英语词汇give short shrift to someone的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	give short shrift to someone
词源	give short shrift to someone. To treat someone curtly, swift- ly, and unsympathetically. Short shrift was originally, in the 16th century, the few minutes given a condemned man to make his confession to a priest before he was executed, shrift mean- ing “a confession.”
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