英语词汇broker than the ten commandments的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	broker than the ten commandments
词源	broker than the Ten Commandments. A humorous expres- sion from the 1930s, during the Great Depression. Wrote Henry Roth in From Bondage (1996), a novel set in that period: “Lis- ten Bud, I’m flat broke. I’m broker’n the Ten Commandments.”
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