英语词汇see the elephant and hear the owl hoot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	see the elephant and hear the owl hoot
词源	see the elephant and hear the owl hoot. To have a good time deep into the night. A variation on the older see the ele- phant, which referred to seeing the elephant at the circus, the elephant not being a common sight to Americans in the 19th century.
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