英语词汇sell down the river的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	sell down the river
词源	sell down the river. A universal phrase that has as its source the punishment of a slave by his owner by selling him to a sug- arcane plantation on the lower Mississippi, where work condi- tions were at their worst. The expression appears to have been first recorded in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852).
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