英语词汇cakes and ale的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cakes and ale
词源	cakes and ale. Long before it became the title of Somerset Maugham’s novel, Cakes and Ale meant “fun or pleasant activi- ty,” as in “life isn’t all cakes and ale.” Shakespeare may have in- vented the expression, for he first recorded it in Twelfth Night (1600): “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
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