英语词汇strawfoot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

strawfoot. Union Army slang for a raw rural recruit during the Civil War, strawfoot may have been coined by the drill ser- geants who taught these men to march. According to one story, many such men didn’t know their left foot from their right and the instructors tied hay to their left foot and straw to the right, shouting the marching cadence “Hayfoot! Strawfoot!” rather than “Left foot! Right foot!” But, alas, strawfoot is more likely a description of recruits who still had straw from the farm in their shoes.

词汇	strawfoot
词源	strawfoot. Union Army slang for a raw rural recruit during the Civil War, strawfoot may have been coined by the drill ser- geants who taught these men to march. According to one story, many such men didn’t know their left foot from their right and the instructors tied hay to their left foot and straw to the right, shouting the marching cadence “Hayfoot! Strawfoot!” rather than “Left foot! Right foot!” But, alas, strawfoot is more likely a description of recruits who still had straw from the farm in their shoes.
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