英语词汇tell it to the marines的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

tell it to the marines. Not the U.S. Marine Corps, but the British Royal Marines, formed in the 18th century, are the gul- lible ones here. The Royal Marines, quartered aboard ships and responsible for discipline, weren’t well liked by sailors, who considered them stupid and gullible about the seafaring life and made them the butt of many jokes. Seamen even called empty bottles marines. Any tall tale told to a sailor was likely to be met with the response “Tell it to the marines—sailors won’t believe it”; that is, sailors, unlike marines, were too intelligent to be gulled. The saying soon passed into popular use and was first recorded by Lord Byron in The Island (1823), the poet not- ing that it was an old saying even then.

词汇	tell it to the marines
词源	tell it to the marines. Not the U.S. Marine Corps, but the British Royal Marines, formed in the 18th century, are the gul- lible ones here. The Royal Marines, quartered aboard ships and responsible for discipline, weren’t well liked by sailors, who considered them stupid and gullible about the seafaring life and made them the butt of many jokes. Seamen even called empty bottles marines. Any tall tale told to a sailor was likely to be met with the response “Tell it to the marines—sailors won’t believe it”; that is, sailors, unlike marines, were too intelligent to be gulled. The saying soon passed into popular use and was first recorded by Lord Byron in The Island (1823), the poet not- ing that it was an old saying even then.
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