词汇 | boy meets girl |
词源 | boy meets girl. A phrase meaning any conventional love sto- ry. Also girl meets boy. Cleaning out William Faulkner’s desk after he left the Warner Brothers writing factory in the 1930s, coworkers found the fruits of his labor: an empty whiskey bot- tle and a piece of paper on which he had written, more than 500 times, boy meets girl. |
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