英语词汇no soap的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

no soap! In 1775 young actor and author Samuel Foote (1720–77) composed the following speech when pompous fel- low actor Charles Macklin boasted that he could repeat any- thing after hearing it once: “So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time, a great she-bear coming up the street pops its head into the shop—What! no soap! So he died; and she very impudently married the barber; and there were present the picaninnies and the Jobilies, and the Garyuloes, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top.” “Old Macklin” (he lived to be 100) gave up in disgust, unable to memorize this nonsense, but the mnemonic exercise gave the language both the phrase no soap!, for the failure of some mission or plea, and grand Panjandrum, which was first used as a derogatory term by Edward FitzGerald in his translation of the Rubáiyát, when he applied it to a self-important local official. Foote, disliked by Dr. Johnson, once announced that he was going to do an imita- tion of the Great Cham on the stage. Johnson sent word that he had ordered a new oak cudgel and would be present that eve- ning to correct any faults in the impersonation with it. Foote canceled the show.

词汇	no soap
词源	no soap! In 1775 young actor and author Samuel Foote (1720–77) composed the following speech when pompous fel- low actor Charles Macklin boasted that he could repeat any- thing after hearing it once: “So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time, a great she-bear coming up the street pops its head into the shop—What! no soap! So he died; and she very impudently married the barber; and there were present the picaninnies and the Jobilies, and the Garyuloes, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top.” “Old Macklin” (he lived to be 100) gave up in disgust, unable to memorize this nonsense, but the mnemonic exercise gave the language both the phrase no soap!, for the failure of some mission or plea, and grand Panjandrum, which was first used as a derogatory term by Edward FitzGerald in his translation of the Rubáiyát, when he applied it to a self-important local official. Foote, disliked by Dr. Johnson, once announced that he was going to do an imita- tion of the Great Cham on the stage. Johnson sent word that he had ordered a new oak cudgel and would be present that eve- ning to correct any faults in the impersonation with it. Foote canceled the show.
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