词汇 | nutmeg stater |
词源 | Nutmeg Stater. A resident of Connecticut, the Nutmeg State. As John Updike put it in The Afterlife (1994): “Driving down Route 86 into the blinding splinters of a sunset. He heard the disc jockey crow, ‘Get your long johns out of the mothballs, Nutmeg Staters, we’re going to flirt with zero tonight!’ ” |
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