英语词汇on the make的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

on the make. In mid-19th-century America, on the make meant only to be out for money, to be ruthlessly ambitious. During the Great Depression, interests shifted outwardly from money to sex, there being more of the latter around then than the former, and the expression acquired its second meaning of to be “out for love.” The words probably are the source of to make it with someone, “succeed in having sexual intercourse”; make time, “have relations,” make out and make-out artist. The earlier meaning remains primarily in to make it, “to succeed in any endeavor, to rise to the top.”

词汇	on the make
词源	on the make. In mid-19th-century America, on the make meant only to be out for money, to be ruthlessly ambitious. During the Great Depression, interests shifted outwardly from money to sex, there being more of the latter around then than the former, and the expression acquired its second meaning of to be “out for love.” The words probably are the source of to make it with someone, “succeed in having sexual intercourse”; make time, “have relations,” make out and make-out artist. The earlier meaning remains primarily in to make it, “to succeed in any endeavor, to rise to the top.”
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