英语词汇mutual admiration society的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

mutual admiration society. An Americanism that was first recorded in Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858) but was coined by Thomas Gold Appleton, Longfellow’s brother-in-law. The OED defines the phrase as “a satiric designation for a coterie of persons who are accused of over-estimating each other’s merits,” though it also can be used in a lighthearted, humorous way, as between two friends. Called “the first (best) conversationalist in America” by Emerson, the rich, worldly Appleton was according to Van Wyck Brooks in New England: Indian Summer (1940) “the only man who could ride over Holmes and Lowell and talk them down.” He also coined the humorous all good Americans go to Paris when they die, which is often attributed to Holmes or Oscar Wilde. Holm- es, in fact, quoted the remark in The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. See frozen yankee doodle; all good americans go to paris when they die.

词汇	mutual admiration society
词源	mutual admiration society. An Americanism that was first recorded in Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858) but was coined by Thomas Gold Appleton, Longfellow’s brother-in-law. The OED defines the phrase as “a satiric designation for a coterie of persons who are accused of over-estimating each other’s merits,” though it also can be used in a lighthearted, humorous way, as between two friends. Called “the first (best) conversationalist in America” by Emerson, the rich, worldly Appleton was according to Van Wyck Brooks in New England: Indian Summer (1940) “the only man who could ride over Holmes and Lowell and talk them down.” He also coined the humorous all good Americans go to Paris when they die, which is often attributed to Holmes or Oscar Wilde. Holm- es, in fact, quoted the remark in The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. See frozen yankee doodle; all good americans go to paris when they die.
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