词汇 | big doolie |
词源 | big doolie. Any important person, is sometimes called a big doolie, as in this New York Times quote from an Olympic gold medal winner: “I got a gold today, so I’m a big doolie.” The ex- pression, perhaps half a century old, may have its origin in the older American slang term dooly, meaning “dynamite,” its ori- gin unknown. |
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