英语词汇stop me if you’ve heard this one的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

stop me if you’ve heard this (one). An often apologetic phrase from about 1930, uttered when someone is about to tell a joke or story. Partridge says the phrase is “mock-considerate” and Noël Coward, in a short story entitled “Stop Me If You’ve Heard It,” calls it “that idiotic insincere phrase—as though peo- ple ever had the courage to stop anyone however many times they’ve heard it.” But author Ring Lardner (1885–1933), who had the driest wit of any American writer of his time, so dis- liked jokes that whenever anyone warned him, “Stop me if you’ve heard this one,” he invariably cried “Stop!”

词汇	stop me if you’ve heard this one
词源	stop me if you’ve heard this (one). An often apologetic phrase from about 1930, uttered when someone is about to tell a joke or story. Partridge says the phrase is “mock-considerate” and Noël Coward, in a short story entitled “Stop Me If You’ve Heard It,” calls it “that idiotic insincere phrase—as though peo- ple ever had the courage to stop anyone however many times they’ve heard it.” But author Ring Lardner (1885–1933), who had the driest wit of any American writer of his time, so dis- liked jokes that whenever anyone warned him, “Stop me if you’ve heard this one,” he invariably cried “Stop!”
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