| 词汇 | bowl over |
| 词源 | bowl over. Apparently this term, meaning to surprise greatly, is not from bowling, nor is it an Americanism. Logan Pearsall Smith’s Words and Idioms (1925) claims it derives from a cricket term describing the bowler throwing the ball to the batsman. First used in England, the expression crossed the Atlantic by the end of the 19th century. |
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