英语词汇boot hill的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	boot hill
词源	Boot Hill. Now a joking name for any cemetery, the term was first applied to any small cemetery where men who died in gunfights, with their boots on, were buried. The first such is said to have been in Deadwood, South Dakota; the Mount Mo- riah cemetery there is now a big tourist attraction.
随便看	nobody never hit nobody nobody-s land no-brainer no bucks no buck rogers no can do no chain on the bike no cheese no bees no trees no comment no dice no flies on him no good deed goes unpunished no great shakes no hits no runs no errors no holds barred nohow no ifs ands or buts about it noisette noisome no ka de noli me tangere no love lost no-man-s-land nom de debauch nom de guerre nom de plume

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