英语词汇big cheese的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	big cheese
词源	big cheese. A big cheese, for “a boss or important person,” is an Americanism dating back to about 1890. But it derives from the British expression the cheese, meaning “the thing or the correct thing, the best.” The British expression, in turn, is a cor- ruption of the Persian or Urdu chiz (or cheez), “thing,” that the British brought back from India in about 1840. A big cheese thus has nothing to do with cheese and should properly be “a big chiz.”
随便看	don’t look back something might be gaining on you don’t look now don’t make two bites of a cherry don’t play games with me don’t poke one-s nose into it don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today don’t say it if you can grunt it don’t sell the steak sell the sizzle don’t stick your neck out don’t take any wooden nickels don’t that take the rag off the bush don’t want to pick up that snake now don’t wash your dirty linen in public don’t write it if you can say it doodlebug doo-doo doofus doolally dooley doolittle do’d it doorbuster doornail doo-wop dope dopey

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