英语词汇go whistle for it的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

go whistle for it. One story claims that this saying arose as a perversion of the old nautical superstition that one could raise the wind for a becalmed ship by whistling (the basis of the “mag- ic” was that air would come from the sky just as air came from your mouth). But another tale, also unproved, attributes the words to the whistle tankards once used in British pubs, drinkers blowing a whistle on the side of each when they wanted a refill. Thus both possible sources imply the opposite of the phrase’s meaning “You’ll never get it from me, you won’t get it at all.”

词汇	go whistle for it
词源	go whistle for it. One story claims that this saying arose as a perversion of the old nautical superstition that one could raise the wind for a becalmed ship by whistling (the basis of the “mag- ic” was that air would come from the sky just as air came from your mouth). But another tale, also unproved, attributes the words to the whistle tankards once used in British pubs, drinkers blowing a whistle on the side of each when they wanted a refill. Thus both possible sources imply the opposite of the phrase’s meaning “You’ll never get it from me, you won’t get it at all.”
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