英语词汇take the stone out of my shoe的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	take the stone out of my shoe
词源	take the stone out of my shoe. Apparently this is an old Ital- ian proverb used by the Mafia meaning “to eliminate someone,” remove him from my life so that he won’t bother me anymore. In Richard Condon’s Prizzi’s Honor (1992) the godfather, Don Corrado, says with finality “After you take the stone out of my shoe, leave her in a rent-a-car at the airport.”
随便看	all fogged up all foreign fruit plants are free from duty all for one and one for all all good americans go to paris when they die all gussied up all hands and the cook all hat and no cattle all his bullet holes is in the front of him allies alligator alligators-in-the sewers legend all i know is what i read in the papers all in the same boat all is lost save honor alliteration all men make faults all mouth and no ears all my eye and betty martin all oak and iron bound all-overs all over the ballpark all quiet on the potomac all quiet on the western front all roads lead to rome all she wrote

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