英语词汇sweet fanny adams的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

sweet Fanny Adams. Fanny Adams was murdered and muti- lated in 1812, her body cut into pieces and thrown into the Riv- er Wey at Alton in Hampshire. Her murderer, one Fred Baker, was publicly hanged in Winchester. Young Fanny Adams’s name, given wide currency, was adopted by sailors to indicate a particularly distasteful meal, since Fanny Adams had been dis- posed of in a kettle. In fact, when kettles came into use in the British navy they were dubbed Fannys as were tins or cans of meat. There is no doubt that Fanny Adams is the basis for the military expression sweet Fanny Adams, meaning something worthless or nothing at all.

词汇	sweet fanny adams
词源	sweet Fanny Adams. Fanny Adams was murdered and muti- lated in 1812, her body cut into pieces and thrown into the Riv- er Wey at Alton in Hampshire. Her murderer, one Fred Baker, was publicly hanged in Winchester. Young Fanny Adams’s name, given wide currency, was adopted by sailors to indicate a particularly distasteful meal, since Fanny Adams had been dis- posed of in a kettle. In fact, when kettles came into use in the British navy they were dubbed Fannys as were tins or cans of meat. There is no doubt that Fanny Adams is the basis for the military expression sweet Fanny Adams, meaning something worthless or nothing at all.
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