英语词汇tad的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Tad. A good number of references are found in these pages to T(homas) A(loysius) D(organ) (1877–1929), the great American cartoonist better known as “Tad” to millions of newspaper readers early in the 20th century. Dorgan, born in a San Francisco tenement, taught himself to draw with his left hand when at the age of 13 an accident deprived him of the use of his right hand. He worked for a time on San Francisco newspapers, but his great fame came when William Randolph Hearst hired him away to New York. “Judge Rummy,” “Silk Hat Harry,” and many of Tad’s characters, all dogs in human dress, became household words in America, and Dorgan was recog- nized as the country’s most prolific and original coiner of words and catchphrases. If there is a writer anywhere who in- vented more lasting words and expressions than Dorgan, I’ve missed him. Just for the record, here are some of the most memorable ones, a good number of which are described at length in these pages. Many were listed by humorist S. J. Perel- man, a student and early admirer of Tad, in a New York Times Magazine article: hot dog; yes-man; dumbhead; applesauce (for insincere flattery); drugstore cowboy; lounge-lizard; chin music (pointless talk); the once-over; the cat’s meow; press no- tice; 23-skiddoo; flat tire; for crying out loud; Officer, call a cop; yes, we have no bananas; the first hundred years are the hardest (sometimes credited to Wilson Mizner); see what the boys in the back room will have; the only place you’ll find sympathy is in the dictionary; half the world are squirrels and the other half are nuts; as busy as a one-armed paperhanger with the hives (sometimes attributed to O. Henry, who in a 1908 story wrote: “Busy as a one-armed man with the nettle rash pasting on wallpaper”).

词汇	tad
词源	Tad. A good number of references are found in these pages to T(homas) A(loysius) D(organ) (1877–1929), the great American cartoonist better known as “Tad” to millions of newspaper readers early in the 20th century. Dorgan, born in a San Francisco tenement, taught himself to draw with his left hand when at the age of 13 an accident deprived him of the use of his right hand. He worked for a time on San Francisco newspapers, but his great fame came when William Randolph Hearst hired him away to New York. “Judge Rummy,” “Silk Hat Harry,” and many of Tad’s characters, all dogs in human dress, became household words in America, and Dorgan was recog- nized as the country’s most prolific and original coiner of words and catchphrases. If there is a writer anywhere who in- vented more lasting words and expressions than Dorgan, I’ve missed him. Just for the record, here are some of the most memorable ones, a good number of which are described at length in these pages. Many were listed by humorist S. J. Perel- man, a student and early admirer of Tad, in a New York Times Magazine article: hot dog; yes-man; dumbhead; applesauce (for insincere flattery); drugstore cowboy; lounge-lizard; chin music (pointless talk); the once-over; the cat’s meow; press no- tice; 23-skiddoo; flat tire; for crying out loud; Officer, call a cop; yes, we have no bananas; the first hundred years are the hardest (sometimes credited to Wilson Mizner); see what the boys in the back room will have; the only place you’ll find sympathy is in the dictionary; half the world are squirrels and the other half are nuts; as busy as a one-armed paperhanger with the hives (sometimes attributed to O. Henry, who in a 1908 story wrote: “Busy as a one-armed man with the nettle rash pasting on wallpaper”).
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