| 词汇 | sweet talk |
| 词源 | sweet talk; sweet mouth. Sweet talk is smooth, unctuous flattery designed to win over a person. There is no proof of it, but this southern Americanism possibly comes from Krio, an English-based Creole of Sierra Leone, specifically from the ex- pression swit mot, sweet mouth, for “flattery.” To sweet mouth someone is the opposite of to bad-mouth him. |
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