英语词汇can of corn的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

can of corn. A high, easy-to-catch flyball or pop-up. There are numerous explanations for this baseball expression, first re- corded in the early 1920s. Paul Dickson’s excellent The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (1989) discusses several, including the the- ory that the phrase comes “from the old time grocery store where the grocer used a pole or a mechanical grabber to tip an item, such as a can of corn, off a high shelf and let it tumble into his hands or his apron, which was held out in front like a fire net.” The term is also used outside of baseball today, meaning any easy accomplishment.

词汇	can of corn
词源	can of corn. A high, easy-to-catch flyball or pop-up. There are numerous explanations for this baseball expression, first re- corded in the early 1920s. Paul Dickson’s excellent The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (1989) discusses several, including the the- ory that the phrase comes “from the old time grocery store where the grocer used a pole or a mechanical grabber to tip an item, such as a can of corn, off a high shelf and let it tumble into his hands or his apron, which was held out in front like a fire net.” The term is also used outside of baseball today, meaning any easy accomplishment.
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