英语词汇the cat-s meow的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the cat-s meow
词源	the cat’s meow. There is a large litter of terms equating the cat with excellence, all of them Americanisms first recorded in the early 1920s. These are the cat’s meow, the cat’s nuts, the cat’s whis- kers, the cat’s pajamas, and the cat’s kittens. What is especially excellent about a cat’s meow or any of the other collection of cat terms remains a mystery. See bee’s knees.
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英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。