英语词汇between you me and the lamppost的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	between you me and the lamppost
词源	between you, me, and the lamppost. Dickens used this ex- pression in Nicholas Nickleby (1838) and it couldn’t be much older, for “lamppost” is first recorded in 1790. But the words probably derive from earlier expressions meaning “in confi- dence,” such as between you and me and between you and me and the gatepost (or bedpost).
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