| 词汇 | oral days |
| 词源 | oral days. When old horse-racing buffs talk of the oral days they mean the good old days—before the time of totalizer machines—when bets were made by word of mouth. The ex- pression seems to have almost passed out of use, but it is worth remembering. |
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