英语词汇blow his top的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

blow his top. For several centuries blow has been used in the sense of a violent explosion of temper, and for just as long top has meant the top of the head. Yet somehow the expression to blow one’s top didn’t enter the language until about the time of the Great Depression. There have been attempts to link it with the top of a volcano erupting, but the phrase seems to have come down the road to general speech via the off-trail slang of jazz musicians. Mencken alludes to its “blushful” sexual origin, but doesn’t explain further, probably meaning ejaculation of the male organ.

词汇	blow his top
词源	blow his top. For several centuries blow has been used in the sense of a violent explosion of temper, and for just as long top has meant the top of the head. Yet somehow the expression to blow one’s top didn’t enter the language until about the time of the Great Depression. There have been attempts to link it with the top of a volcano erupting, but the phrase seems to have come down the road to general speech via the off-trail slang of jazz musicians. Mencken alludes to its “blushful” sexual origin, but doesn’t explain further, probably meaning ejaculation of the male organ.
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