英语词汇off the wall的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	off the wall
词源	off the wall. Many sports, including handball, squash, and racquetball, could be the source of this recent expression mean- ing “crazy, eccentric, highly unusual, outrageous”—as balls of- ten bounce erratically off walls in all of these games. On the other hand, the term may be related to the earlier expression bounce off the walls, referring to the behavior of psychotic pa- tients in mental hospitals.
随便看	i’ll drink all the blood that is spilled between north and south i’ll gladly trade 11 years of ‘then’ for seven years of ‘now’ i’ll have a steak and the man on the left i’ll take my davy of it i’ll tell you what i’m gonna do i’m a cranky old yank in a clanky old tank on the streets of yokahama with my honolulu mama doin’ those beat-o flat-on-my-seat-o hirohito blues i’m a curly-tailed wolf with a pink ass and this is my night to howl i’m all right jack i’m as mad as hell and i’m not gonna take this anymore i’m from missouri i’ve got a stone in my shoe i’ve got to see a man about a dog i ♥ new york j jabberwocky jabon jack jackanapes jack and jill jack armstrong the all-american boy jackass express jackass mail jack dempsey jack frost jackfruit

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