英语词汇oscar asche的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	oscar asche
词源	Oscar Asche. Another famous oscar is the Australian Oscar Asche (1872–1936), a musical comedy star who made a tidy fortune on the stage and whose full name became Australian rhyming slang for cash. “Oscar Asche for cash” was eventually shortened to Oscar, making him the only man whose prenomen means money in a generic sense. See blunt.
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