英语词汇gone to pot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

gone to pot. Marijuana isn’t even a contender here. Neither is there reason to believe that gone to pot has its origins in crema- tion; that is, in the placing of human ashes in an urn or pot. Neither has it any connection with drunkards dissipating in wine pots. Most authorities agree that this expression for being ruined, disintegrated, which dates back before Elizabethan times, was inspired by pieces of meat being chopped up and going into the pot for a stew. They were usually inferior cuts of meat, this stew meat, the kind rich men trimmed off a joint in old England and gave to the servants for their stew pot. “Going to the pot” suggested going down in the world, because a mere stew didn’t compare to more savory ways of preparing meat. When you went to the stew pot, like a piece of meat, your iden- tity was destroyed, you literally disintegrated. Nevertheless, the old story persists that a tailor who lived near a cemetery in a small European town dropped a stone in a pot for every funeral that passed by. When he himself died, a wag quipped that he too had gone to pot.

词汇	gone to pot
词源	gone to pot. Marijuana isn’t even a contender here. Neither is there reason to believe that gone to pot has its origins in crema- tion; that is, in the placing of human ashes in an urn or pot. Neither has it any connection with drunkards dissipating in wine pots. Most authorities agree that this expression for being ruined, disintegrated, which dates back before Elizabethan times, was inspired by pieces of meat being chopped up and going into the pot for a stew. They were usually inferior cuts of meat, this stew meat, the kind rich men trimmed off a joint in old England and gave to the servants for their stew pot. “Going to the pot” suggested going down in the world, because a mere stew didn’t compare to more savory ways of preparing meat. When you went to the stew pot, like a piece of meat, your iden- tity was destroyed, you literally disintegrated. Nevertheless, the old story persists that a tailor who lived near a cemetery in a small European town dropped a stone in a pot for every funeral that passed by. When he himself died, a wag quipped that he too had gone to pot.
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