| 词汇 | the cook did it |
| 词源 | the cook did it. Antiquarian John Warburton (1682–1759) collected 50 or so Jacobean plays, three of which now survive as the priceless Lansdowne manuscripts at the British Muse- um. Most of the often unique plays were destroyed when Warburton left them in the care of his cook, Betsy Baker, who burned them for fuel or used them as linings for her pie pans. |
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