英语词汇that-s all she wrote的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

that’s all she wrote. Meaning that’s the end of it, it’s finished, that’s all there is, that’s all she wrote is first recorded in 1948 as college slang, but probably dates back before World War II. It may have derived from the Dear John letters breaking up a re- lationship that some soldiers received from wives and sweet- hearts while away from home. This seems to be indicated by its use in James Jones’s novel From Here to Eternity, which takes place just before World War II: “All she’d have to do, if she got caught with you, would be to holler rape and it would be Dear John, that’s all she wrote.”

词汇	that-s all she wrote
词源	that’s all she wrote. Meaning that’s the end of it, it’s finished, that’s all there is, that’s all she wrote is first recorded in 1948 as college slang, but probably dates back before World War II. It may have derived from the Dear John letters breaking up a re- lationship that some soldiers received from wives and sweet- hearts while away from home. This seems to be indicated by its use in James Jones’s novel From Here to Eternity, which takes place just before World War II: “All she’d have to do, if she got caught with you, would be to holler rape and it would be Dear John, that’s all she wrote.”
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