| 词汇 | borax |
| 词源 | borax. The real source for the term borax, for “cheap fur- niture, or any cheap and inferior merchandise,” is probably not a Yiddish expression used by Jewish immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side in the late 19th century, as many sources con- tend, but the premiums for cheap furniture offered by early manufacturers of borax soap. |
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