| 词源 |
every man has his price. Some cynic other than Sir Robert Walpole coined this phrase. The British prime minister said something entirely different and referred only to corrupt mem- bers of Parliament, according to William Coxe in his Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole (1798). Wrote Coxe of Sir Robert: “Flow- ery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested view of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended pa- triots, of whom he said, ‘All those men have their price.’ ” |