英语词汇spice islands的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	spice islands
词源	Spice Islands. Punning on the Spice Islands, the Moluccas in Indonesia, this expression was 19th-century slang for a privy or any foul-smelling place.
随便看	to die like a dog to err is human toe the line to form a firing squad in a circle to get in on the ground floor to go bush to go into an irish sulk to goose to go to the dogs to handbag to have a screw loose to hell or connaught to herd to hide one-s head in the sand tohu-bohu toilet toilet paper toilet paper capital of the world tokay wine tokus tokyo rose to live on easy street toll house cookie tomahawk to make one-s point

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