英语词汇burn one-s fingers的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	burn one-s fingers
词源	burn one’s fingers. To be harmed by meddling with some- thing. Several sources suggest that the allusion here is to taking chestnuts from the fire. But there is no evidence for this in the first recorded use of the phrase in a 1710 book of English prov- erbs: “The busiebody burns his own fingers.”
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