英语词汇big house的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	big house
词源	Big House. The British use this term for the main house in a village, but in the United States it has meant, since about 1913, a prison or penitentiary. The American meaning may, however, come from the mid-19th-century British slang Big House for “the workhouse.”
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