英语词汇send to the showers的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	send to the showers
词源	send to the showers. This phrase, meaning “to dismiss or re- ject someone,” is from baseball, where it is first recorded in 1931. In baseball it means to take a failing pitcher out of a game and send in a relief pitcher. Since the pitcher can’t play again in that game, he often takes a shower in the clubhouse and chang- es to street clothes.
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