词汇 | every man jack |
词源 | every man jack. Everybody without exception, even the most insignificant. This apparently isn’t a nautical phrase; at least it is first recorded by Dickens in Barnaby Rudge (1840). Dickens may have coined the precise phrase, but Shakespeare used a similar term in the same sense in Cymbeline: “Every Jack-slave hath his belly full of fighting.” |
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