英语词汇nice work if you can get it的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	nice work if you can get it
词源	nice work if you can get it. Common in the U.S. since at least the late 1930s, this phrase—which means “a favorable or agreeable arrangement”—is in Noel Coward’s Peace in Our Time (1947). A musical comedy song of the same title popular- ized the expression in America (in A Damsel in Distress, 1937).
随便看	life is short but the art is long life of riley life rates life-s a bitch and then you die lifting monday lifting tuesday lift yourself up by the bootstraps liger light a fire under light colonel lightning/lightning bug lightning never strikes twice lightning pilot light on a bush lightship lightweight like a duck like a hot knife through butter like a house on fire like all get out like a shot out of hell like father like son like grand central station like herding cats like in macy-s window

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