英语词汇over a barrel的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	over a barrel
词源	over a barrel. Here the person over the barrel is in the other person’s power or at his mercy. In the days before mouth-to- mouth resuscitation and other modern methods of lifesaving, lifeguards placed drowning victims over a barrel, which was rolled back and forth while the lifeguard tried to revive them. Victims were certainly in the lifeguard’s power, and the process is probably the origin of the Americanism to have someone over a barrel.
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