词汇 | abe lincoln bug |
词源 | Abe Lincoln bug. Anti-Lincoln feelings died hard in the South after the Civil War, as the name of this little bug shows. Even as late as 1901 this foul-smelling insect, also known as the harlequin cabbage bug, was commonly called the Abe- Lincoln bug in Georgia and other Southern states. See alsolincolndom. |
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