英语词汇ought to be bored for the hollow horn的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	ought to be bored for the hollow horn
词源	ought to be bored for the hollow horn. Said of a seemingly feeble-minded person. This Americanism was suggested by the hollow horn disease in cattle, which made cattle ill and feeble and was supposedly cured by drilling a hole in the horns.
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