英语词汇neither hide nor hair的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

neither hide nor hair. In hide and hair, meaning “completely, wholly, every part,” goes back to Chaucerian times, but its op- posite, neither hide nor hair, is a 19th-century Americanism, probably arising on the frontier. A hungry predator devouring his prey “hide and hair” has been suggested as the source of the first metaphor, but that is hard to swallow for man or beast. Anyway, the reverse phrase means “nothing whatsoever” and its earliest record is in an 1858 book by Timothy Titcomb, the pseudonym of the American writer Josiah G. Holland, who founded Scribner’s Magazine: “I haven’t seen hide nor hair of the piece ever since.”See bone, hide, and hair.

词汇	neither hide nor hair
词源	neither hide nor hair. In hide and hair, meaning “completely, wholly, every part,” goes back to Chaucerian times, but its op- posite, neither hide nor hair, is a 19th-century Americanism, probably arising on the frontier. A hungry predator devouring his prey “hide and hair” has been suggested as the source of the first metaphor, but that is hard to swallow for man or beast. Anyway, the reverse phrase means “nothing whatsoever” and its earliest record is in an 1858 book by Timothy Titcomb, the pseudonym of the American writer Josiah G. Holland, who founded Scribner’s Magazine: “I haven’t seen hide nor hair of the piece ever since.”See bone, hide, and hair.
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