英语词汇big butter-and-egg man的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

big butter-and-egg man. Speakeasy owner Texas Guinan may have coined this expression for a wealthy big spender dur- ing the Roaring Twenties. According to the story, one of her patrons kept buying rounds for the house all evening and showering $50 bills on the chorus girls. Texas asked him to take a bow but he would only identify himself as being in the dairy business, so Texas put the spotlight on him, asking for “a hand for my big butter-and-egg man.” In any case, George S. Kaufman used the phrase as the title of a play in 1925, giving it greater currency.

词汇	big butter-and-egg man
词源	big butter-and-egg man. Speakeasy owner Texas Guinan may have coined this expression for a wealthy big spender dur- ing the Roaring Twenties. According to the story, one of her patrons kept buying rounds for the house all evening and showering $50 bills on the chorus girls. Texas asked him to take a bow but he would only identify himself as being in the dairy business, so Texas put the spotlight on him, asking for “a hand for my big butter-and-egg man.” In any case, George S. Kaufman used the phrase as the title of a play in 1925, giving it greater currency.
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