英语词汇the best laid schemes plans of mice and men的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the best laid schemes plans of mice and men
词源	the best laid schemes (plans) of mice and men. In his poem To a Mouse (ca. 1786) Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” The words have ever since been a common expression for failed plans in both Great Britain and the U.S., often in its original form, often as the best laid plans of mice and man often go astray, and often as the abbreviated the best laid plans of mice and men.
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