英语词汇neither fish flesh nor fowl的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	neither fish flesh nor fowl
词源	neither fish, flesh, nor fowl. An expression that dates back at least to the 17th century, meaning “neither one thing nor the other,” suitable to neither the clergy, who eat fish, nor the gen- erality, who eat flesh, nor the poor, who must eat fowl. A varia- tion is neither fish nor fowl not good red herring.
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