词汇 | one fishball |
词源 | one fishball. The popular song “One Meatball,” with its well- known line “You get no bread with one meatball,” was adapted from a New England song called “The Lay of One Fishball,” ap- parently written by Harvard professor George Martin Lane in 1857 or thereabouts. Lane’s line was: “We don’t give bread with one fishball!” |
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