| 词汇 | send packing |
| 词源 | send packing. To dismiss or fire somebody speedily and without ceremony. The phrase dates back at least to the 19th century when Browning used it in The Pied Piper of Hamlin (1842). Ernest Weekley, in An Etymological Dictionary of Mod- ern English (1921) observes that pack, or its equivalent, in many languages is “commonly associated with hurried departure.” |
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