英语词汇nip and tuck的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

nip and tuck. Nip and tuck pretty much means “neck and neck,” but the latter phrase suggests, say, two runners racing at the same speed with neither one ahead of the other, while nip and tuck describes a close race where the lead alternates. The earliest recorded form of the expression is found in James K. Paulding’s Westward Ho! (1832): “There we were at rip and tuck, up one tree and down another.” Maybe the rip originally came from “let ’er rip” and later became nip because of the ex- pression “to nip someone out,” to barely beat him, while the tuck was simply an old slang word for “vim and vigor.” Other guesses at the phrase’s origins are even wilder.

词汇	nip and tuck
词源	nip and tuck. Nip and tuck pretty much means “neck and neck,” but the latter phrase suggests, say, two runners racing at the same speed with neither one ahead of the other, while nip and tuck describes a close race where the lead alternates. The earliest recorded form of the expression is found in James K. Paulding’s Westward Ho! (1832): “There we were at rip and tuck, up one tree and down another.” Maybe the rip originally came from “let ’er rip” and later became nip because of the ex- pression “to nip someone out,” to barely beat him, while the tuck was simply an old slang word for “vim and vigor.” Other guesses at the phrase’s origins are even wilder.
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