英语词汇hammer and tongs的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hammer and tongs
词源	hammer and tongs. “To go at it hammer and tongs” means to literally or figuratively fight with all one’s resources with no hold barred, with might and main. The blacksmith has become a rarity and a curiosity, but this 17th-century expression allud- ing to his art lives on. It refers of course to the brawny smitty taking red-hot metal from the forge with his long-handled pin- cers, or tongs, and vigorously beating it into shape on the anvil with his hammer.
随便看	not just another pretty face notre pierre not right not so hot not the only pebble on the beach not to be sneezed at not to care a straw not to get the bat off one-s shoulder not to know beans not to know beef from bulls’ foot not to know if one is coming or going not to know one-s ass from one-s elbow not tonight josephine not to turn a hair not to worry not what it-s cracked up to be not worth a bean not worth a continental not worth a hannah cook not worth a plugged nickel not worth a rap not worth a red cent not worth a row hill of beans not worth a tinker-s damn dam not worth his salt

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