| 词源 |
tearing up the pea patch. Red Barber popularized this southern U.S. expression for “going on a rampage” when he broadcast Brooklyn Dodger baseball games from 1945–55, us- ing it often to describe fights on the field between players. Bar- ber hails from the South, where the expression is an old one, referring to the prized patch of black-eyed peas, which stray animals sometimes ruined. See also catbird. |