英语词汇good riddance to bad rubbish的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

good riddance to bad rubbish. Riddance refers to the act of cleaning away something undesirable and good riddance sig- nifies a welcome relief from something, this last expression first recorded in 1783 as a good riddance!, a saying common in the U.S. today. The much stronger and rarer good riddance to bad rubbish! might be said to or of some worthless person who is leaving a place or a group of people, someone every- one is glad to be rid of. This alliterative phrase appears to be an Americanism but apparently hasn’t been recorded any- where, though it has been used in America for at least a century.

词汇	good riddance to bad rubbish
词源	good riddance to bad rubbish. Riddance refers to the act of cleaning away something undesirable and good riddance sig- nifies a welcome relief from something, this last expression first recorded in 1783 as a good riddance!, a saying common in the U.S. today. The much stronger and rarer good riddance to bad rubbish! might be said to or of some worthless person who is leaving a place or a group of people, someone every- one is glad to be rid of. This alliterative phrase appears to be an Americanism but apparently hasn’t been recorded any- where, though it has been used in America for at least a century.
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