| 词汇 | been down so long it looks like up to me |
| 词源 | been down so long it looks like up to me. This expression is the title of a book by the late Richard Fariña and still has cur- rency today. It dates back to the 1960s or before and is akin to several ancient phrases. For example, in 1590 one writer noted: “They verife the olde Proverb, Charles, which is, That such as were never but in Hell, doo thinke that there is no other Heaven.” |
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