英语词汇hell-s kitchen的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hell-s kitchen
词源	hell’s kitchen. As that part of hell where the fires are hottest, hell’s kitchen would be unpleasant indeed, which is why it came to mean any very unpleasant, disreputable place. The ex- pression is first recorded in Davy Crockett’s An Account of Col. Crockett’s Tour to the North and Down East (1834). By 1879 it was being used as a name for an infamous district on New York City’s West Side, which Mitford Mathews tells us was “once regarded as the home of thieves and gunmen.” The Stovepipe was part of it, and nearby were the tenements of Poverty Gap.
随便看	donorcycle do-nothing congress don’t amount to a poot in a windstorm don’t blow a gasket don’t bogart that joint don’t change horses in midstream don’t come the acid don’t count on rain when it-s needed ‘til it-s floatin’ chips up around your belly button don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched don’t do anything i wouldn’t do don’t even think about it don’t fence me in don’t fix it if it-s not broke don’t get your bowels in an uproar don’t get your knickers in a twist don’t give a rap don’t give holy things to hounds don’t give up the ship don’t go shootin’ all the dogs ’cause one has fleas don’t go to the bad for the shadow of an ass don’t have a clue don’t hurry hopkins don’t know him from adam don’t let money burn a hole in your pocket don’t like the cut of his jib

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