| 词汇 | go while the going-s good |
| 词源 | go while the going’s good. Bogart says this to Hepburn in their film The African Queen (1951) while trying to persuade her to leave Africa where World War I German troops are bru- tally expelling all others. Those infamous leeches that were all over Bogart in their escape were only rubber and were stuck to Bogey with waterproof glue. Each “leech” contained a small “blood sac” that broke when peeled off. |
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