英语词汇take lying down的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	take lying down
词源	take lying down. To take a beating or any attack with abject submission. The picture suggested by this expression is so basic to the idea of spineless surrender that you’d think the phrase went back a long way. But it is modern, first recorded in 1888, in an En- glish journal deploring Englishmen who “take lying down any and every inconvenience that the victorious Irish may inflict.”
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