英语词汇heavens to betsy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

heavens to Betsy! No one has been able to uncover the origins of this old common exclamation of surprise, joy, or even annoy- ance. Etymologist Charles Earle Funk tried hardest, devoting sev- eral pages to the expression in his 1955 book of the same name. “Possibly the phrase was known in Revolutionary War days,” he writes, “but I doubt it. Nor do I think, as some friends have sug- gested, that it pertained in any way to the maker of the first Amer- ican flag, Betsy Ross. It is much more likely to have been derived in some way from the frontiersman’s rifle or gun which, for un- known reasons, he always fondly called Betsy. However, despite exhaustive search, I am reluctantly forced to resort to the familiar lexicographical locution, ‘Source unknown.’ ”

词汇	heavens to betsy
词源	heavens to Betsy! No one has been able to uncover the origins of this old common exclamation of surprise, joy, or even annoy- ance. Etymologist Charles Earle Funk tried hardest, devoting sev- eral pages to the expression in his 1955 book of the same name. “Possibly the phrase was known in Revolutionary War days,” he writes, “but I doubt it. Nor do I think, as some friends have sug- gested, that it pertained in any way to the maker of the first Amer- ican flag, Betsy Ross. It is much more likely to have been derived in some way from the frontiersman’s rifle or gun which, for un- known reasons, he always fondly called Betsy. However, despite exhaustive search, I am reluctantly forced to resort to the familiar lexicographical locution, ‘Source unknown.’ ”
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