英语词汇big enchilada的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

big enchilada. A person who is the boss, the head man or woman, the big shot of any organization. The term is first re- corded on one of the Watergate tapes in 1973, the speaker, John Ehrlichman, referring to Attorney General John Mitchell. In a letter from jail to author William Safire, Ehrlichman later claimed he had coined the expression, having “cooked my own enchiladas for years” as part of his “California upbringing.” Possibly the term owes something to the phrase the whole enchilada—everything, the whole ball of wax—which had been around at least seven years longer, first recorded in 1966. Other foodstuffs associated with bossdom include big banana, big cheese, big fish, big potato, and big vegetable, among others. An enchilada, an American Spanish word, is a tortilla rolled and stuffed with cheese, meat, or beans and served with a hot chili sauce.

词汇	big enchilada
词源	big enchilada. A person who is the boss, the head man or woman, the big shot of any organization. The term is first re- corded on one of the Watergate tapes in 1973, the speaker, John Ehrlichman, referring to Attorney General John Mitchell. In a letter from jail to author William Safire, Ehrlichman later claimed he had coined the expression, having “cooked my own enchiladas for years” as part of his “California upbringing.” Possibly the term owes something to the phrase the whole enchilada—everything, the whole ball of wax—which had been around at least seven years longer, first recorded in 1966. Other foodstuffs associated with bossdom include big banana, big cheese, big fish, big potato, and big vegetable, among others. An enchilada, an American Spanish word, is a tortilla rolled and stuffed with cheese, meat, or beans and served with a hot chili sauce.
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